IP rules exemption for world's poorest "countries falls short"
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The World Trade Organization has granted the world's poorest countries a five-year stay of execution for applying WTO TRIPS Agreement intellectual property rules to pharmaceuticals. But the WTO's "half-hearted compromise" on a plea from least-developed countries to exempt them altogether is unsatisfactory because the exemption is still time bound, says Médecins Sans Frontières.