By Nathaniel DeLucia
At a recent WTO meeting, members discussed several key questions about the future of the Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.
Most notably, the fate of the “non-violation” complaints was expected to
be decided. Non-violation complaints
allow member countries to bring complaints to the WTO against another member
country, even if no violation of an agreement has occurred. The decision as to whether or not to continue
allowing non-violation complaints had continually been put off by the council,
however, they were expected to finally address the issue at the upcoming meeting.
For the complete story on non-violation complaints and the WTO meeting generally, see the IP-Watch article, located here.
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