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• Clash Over Development Agenda at WIPO BRIDGES 10(4) June-July 2006
  
  
• No Consensus on TRIPS Agreement Amendments BRIDGES 10 (4) June-July 2006
  
  
• TRIPS Council: Old Divisions Persist on Disclosure, GIs BRIDGES 10 (2)
March-April 2006


• IP standards in the US-Peru FTA: Health and Environment BRIFGES 10 (1) January 2006
  
  
• What next for the Development Agenda at WIPO, Priorities for 2006 BRIDGES 10 (1) January 2006
  
  
• Will the TRIPS Amendment on Compulsory Licensing Work?BRIDGES 10 (1) January 2006
  
  
• WIPO Development Agenda Status Unclear BRIDGES 9 (9) September - October 2005
  
  
• Culture, Trade and Additional Protection for Geographical Indications Tomer Broude BRIDGES 9 (9) September - October 2005
  
  
• How to Address the Disclosure Requirement at the International Level Felix Addor and Martin Girsberger BRIDGES 9 (9) September - October 2005
  
  
• WIPO and Development: Big Decisions Ahead BRIDGES 8 (9) August 2005
  
  
• TRIPS Council Still Stuck on all Fronts BRIDGES 6-7 (9) June-July 2005
  
  
• Compromise Averts Compulsory AIDS Drugs License in Brazil BRIDGES 6-7 (9) June-July 2005
  
  
• Data Exclusivity: Implications for Developing Countries Meir Perez Pugatch, BRIDGES 6-7 (9) June-July 2005
  
  
• Cross-Retaliation Through TRIPS in the Cotton Dispute? Maristela Basso and Edson Beas BRIDGES 5 (9) May 2005
  
  
• No Solution Yet on Access to Medicines BRIDGES 4 (9) April 2005
  
  
• Access to Knowledge: Time for a Treaty? Peter Drahos BRIDGES 4 (9) April 2005
  
  
• Some Implications of India's New Patent Act Priti Radhakrishnan BRIDGES 4 (9) April 2005
  

• A Review of the IP Negotiations in the US-Andean FTA Manuel Ruiz, BRIDGES 2 (9) March 2005
  
  
• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Implementation Challenges for Nepal Ratnakar Adhikari, BRIDGES 2 (9) March 2005
  
  
• Intellectual Property Protection Dogs Regional Trade Deals Editorial, BRIDGES 1 (9) February 2005
  
  
• Access to Medicines After 2005: Opening Pandora’s Box? Karin Timmermans, BRIDGES 1 (9) February 2005
  
  
• A Review of the Outcomes of WIPO Discussions on the Development Agenda Proposal, Sisule F. Musungu, BRIDGES 8 (9) October 2004.
  
  
• Winds of Change Blow on WIPO, Editorial, BRIDGES 8 (8) September 2004.
  
  
• Establishing a Development Agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Marta Gabrieloni, BRIDGES 8 (8) September 2004.
  
  
• The Socio-economics of Geographical Indications, by Dwijen Rangnekar, BRIDGES 8 (8) September 2004.
  
  
• Toward Development-oriented Technical Assistance in Intellectual Property Policy-making, ICTSD Analysis, BRIDGES 8 (8) September 2004.
  
  
• The US-Chile FTA - Intellecutal Property Issues, by Pedro Roffe, Bridges 8 (7) July-August 2004.
  
  
• Make Drugs Affordable: Replace TRIPs-plus by R&D-plus;, by James Love and Tim Hubbard, BRIDGES 8 (6) June 2004.
  
  
• Canada's New Patent Bill Privides a Basis for Improvement, by Richard Elliot, BRIDGES 8 (5) May 2004.
  
  
• Towards Effective Disclosure of Origin – The Role of the International ABS Regime, by Heike Baumüller and David Vivas Eugui, BRIDGES 8 (4) April 2004.
  
  
• Nutrition and Technology Transfer Policies, by John H. Barton, BRIDGES 8 (3) March 2004.

• The Future of Patentability in International Law According to CAFTA, by Jean-Frédéric Morin, BRIDGES 8 (3) March 2004.

• TRIPs Council Addresses Health, Biodiversity, BRIDGES 8 (3) March 2004.

• Geographical Indications and Biodiversity: Bridges Joining Distant Territories, by Jorge Larson Guerra, BRIDGES 8 (2) February 2004.

• Loaded Agenda for March TRIPs Council, BRIDGES 8 (2) February 2004.

• Development in the Information Age: The Importance of Copyright, by Ruth L. Okediji, BRIDGES 7(8) November 2003.

• Flirting with Flawed Patent Law Amendment, Canada May Undermine Welcome ‘Access to Medicines’ Initiative, by Richard Elliott, BRIDGES 7(8) November 2003.

• Priorities for Development-oriented IPR Systems, BRIDGES 7(7) September-October 2003.

• The Rule of Law and the Problem of Asymmetric Risks in TRIPS, by Frederick M. Abbott, BRIDGES 7(7) September-October 2003.

• The Deadlines Game of the Cancun Ministerial: Where Is the Substance?, Editorial, BRIDGES 7(6) July-August 2003.

• The Multilateral System of Genetic Resources Exchange: Why trade in food genetic resources matters?, by Susan H. Bragdon, BRIDGES 7(6) July-August 2003.

• WTO Members Agree on TRIPs and Public Health Text, BRIDGES 7(6) July-August 2003.

• Access to Medicines Remains Blocked, BRIDGES 7(5) June 2003.

• Civil Society Recommendations for LDCs, BRIDGES 7(5) June 2003.

• Least-Developed Countries Outline Cancun Objectives, BRIDGES 7(5) June 2003.

• TRIPs, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge, BRIDGES 7(5) June 2003.

• Building Bridges between Intellectual Property and Biodiversity: The EC’s Point of View, by Jean Charles Van Eeckhaute, BRIDGES 7(3) April 2003.

• Least-Developed Countries Outline Cancun Objectives, BRIDGES 7(2) March 2003.

• TRIPs, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge, BRIDGES 7(2) March 2003.

• Non-Violation Complaints under the TRIPs Agreement: Time to Let Go by Betty Berendson, BRIDGES 7(2) March 2003.

• Protecting Traditional Knowledge: Approaches and Proposals by Graham Dutfield, BRIDGES 7(1) January-February 2003.

• TRIPs Council Gets Another Opportunity to Solve Manufacturing Capacity Problem, Editorial, BRIDGES 7(1) January-February 2003.

• Midterm Review Reveals Development in Peril in Doha Round, Editorial, BRIDGES 7(1) January-February 2003.

• Access to Medicines: WTO Members May Snatch Defeat out the of Jaws of Victory, Editorial, BRIDGES 6(8) November-December 2002.

• Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights: The Korean Experience by Linsu Kim, BRIDGES 6(8) November-December 2002.

• Intellectual Property in the FTAA: New Imbalances and Small Achievements by David Vivas Eugui, BRIDGES 6(8) November-December 2002.

• Non-voluntary Licensing of Patented Inventions: History, TRIPs, and Canadian and United States Practice by Jerome H. Reichman and Catherine Hasenzahl, BRIDGES 6(7) October 2002.

• New Peruvian Law Protects Indigenous Peoples’ Collective Knowledge by Manuel Ruiz and Isabel Lapeña, BRIDGES 6(6) September 2002.

• WIPO’s Move toward a World Patent System: A Revolution in the Making? by Genetic Resources Action International, BRIDGES 6(6) September 2002.

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights Urges Rethinking of IPR Regimes by Graham Dutfield, BRIDGES 6(6) September 2002.

• Access to Medicines For All: A Major Human Rights Issue by Narenda B. Zaveri, BRIDGES 6(5) June 2002.

• Access to Medicines: Solving the Export Problem under TRIPs by James Love, BRIDGES 6(4) May 2002.

• Extension of Stronger Geographical Indications Ptotection: Against the Interests of Developing Countries? by Dara Williams, BRIDGES 6(4) May 2002.

• Indicators of the Relative Importance of Patents to Developing Countries by Sanjaya Lall, BRIDGES 6(3) March-April 2002.

• The Pros and Cons of Stronger Geographical Indication Protection by Dwijen Rangnekar, BRIDGES 6(3) March-April 2002.

• Revisiting the Technology Transfer Debate: Lessons for the New WTO Working Group by Pedro Roffe and Taffere Tesfachew, BRIDGES 6(2) February 2002.

• Convention on Plant Genetic Resources Adopted by Aniket Ghai, BRIDGES 6(1) January 2002.

• The Protection of Geographical Indications by Alexandra Grazioli, BRIDGES 6(1) January 2002.

• The Declaration on TRIPs and Public Health: A Step in the Right Direction by Ellen't Hoen, BRIDGES 5(9) November-December 2001.

• Biotechnology and Patents: What Can Developing Countries Do About Article 27.3(b)? by Graham Dutfield, BRIDGES 5(9) November-December 2001.

• No Consensus on New Round Despite Release of Pre-Doha Drafts, Editorial, BRIDGES 5(8) October 2001.

• TRIPs and Public Health, Opportunities for Doha by Evelyne Herfkens, BRIDGES 5(8) October 2001.

• TRIPs and the CBD: What Language for the Ministerial Declaration? by Francicso Cannabrava, BRIDGES 5(8) October 2001.

• India’s Plant Variety Protection and Farmers’ Rights Act by Suman Sahai, BRIDGES 5(8) October 2001.

• TRIPs and Public Health vs TRIPs and Pandemics?, Editorial, BRIDGES 5(8) September 2001.

• The International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources in the Context of TRIPs and the CBD by Robert J. L. Lettington, BRIDGES 5(6) July-August 2001.

• Access to Medicines Could Become Doha’s (only?) Success Story, Editorial, BRIDGES 5(5) June 2001.

• The Andean Community’s New Industrial Property Regime: Creating Synergies between the CBD and Intellectual Property Rights by Manuel Ruiz, BRIDGES 4(9) November-December 2000.

• Essential Drugs in Southern Africa Need Protection from Public Health Safeguards under TRIPs by René Loewenson, BRIDGES 4(7) September 2000.

• Human Rights Bodies Gear Up on TRIPs by Peter Prove and Miloon Kothari, BRIDGES 4(6) July-August 2000.

• The Canadian Generic Medicines Panel A Dangerous Precedent in Dangerous Times by Robert Howse, BRIDGES 4(3) April 2000.

• Developing Countries and TRIPs: A Case for a Full-fledged Review of Article 27.3(b) by Genetic Resources Action International, BRIDGES 4(2) March 2000.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Debate: The WTO Needs Citizens’ Advice on Patents over Life by David R. Downes and Matthew Stilwell, BRIDGES Vol 2(8) November-December 1998.

• TRIPs and Biodiversity: Towards the 1999 Review by Richard Tarasofsky, BRIDGES Vol 2(3) April-May 1998.

• Beyond Article 27[3b]: Can the TRIPs Agreement Protect Biological and Cultural Diversity? by Graham Dutfield, BRIDGES Vol 1(3) September 1997.