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Online guide focusing on the legal and economic factors preventing poorer countries gaining access to innovative drugs, by patent attorney Do Hyung Kim. Pubished on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, it gives background information about the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and looks at the problems of compulsory licensing, such as the risks of arbitrage and counterfeit drugs. It includes a bibliography of print and online information sources relating to the World Trade Organization (WTO), TRIPS, compulsory licensing, counterfeit drugs, access to pharmaceuticals, price discrimination and arbitrage (parallel trading).
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