Talk:Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health

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I updated the page to be contemporaneous with the current state of affairs surrounding the DOHA Declaration in its relation to TRIPS (particularly with regards to access to medicines).

I'm somewhat surprised however, to discover that this page is of 'low importance' as it is a multilateral international step towards providing better access to medicine for all, over money considerations and the accepted traditions of intellectual property.

If I may, shall I write a small critique on the importance of the declaration and its hoped-for impact on things such as the African Aids crisis as well as its attempt to help with malaria and TB in Africa? I could support it with the reasoning put forward by the WTO etc.

Sapient Pearwood (talk) 14:29, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2/06 In The News

Anyone know how this article relates to this current event? I'm a little confused. Schwael 15:05, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't. The article is about an internationally agreed declaration. That article is just a joint statement about the Danish cartoon controversy. 221.134.202.220 20:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I take it nothing much happened "before the end of 2002"?

"We instruct the Council for TRIPS to find an expeditious solution to this problem and to report to the General Council before the end of 2002."

To put it bluntly, did they? (It is perhaps one of the web's greatest weaknesses right now that the majority of technologies do not encourage links pointing forward in time.)

I first found an Oxfam America article stating that talks broke down in 2002, but providing no detail or references. Looking a bit further, though, I turned up this set of pages, particularly this one, with plenty of links - but still seeming to end at 2005, and with no clear summary.

Does anyone know of a nice overview of events & decisions since the declaration, or fancy wading through the CPTech stuff to create one? - IMSoP 21:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Circumvention

"member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines."

--> As patents are territorial rights, there can be no such a thing as "circumvention". Either there are rights or there are no rights under national law. circumvention is also an inappropriate term for post grant limitations. Arebenti (talk) 09:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]