For well over a decade, the chirpy sounding acronym for the WTO’s agreement on intellectual property (IP) rights, TRIPS, has rolled familiarly off tongues albeit with fear and loathing in the developing world. To the poor nations of every classification, from the emerging economies to the least developed countries, TRIPS embodied all that was wrong with the global trading system because it placed an additional burden on their development plans. But there has been a marked change in perception of late.

><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>Latha Jishnu:</B> The WIPO knife edge</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>Officials are working at cross purposes in the apex patent body and undermining India

Latha Jishnu: The WIPO knife edge

Officials are working at cross purposes in the apex patent body and undermining Indias position on critical issues

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