Re: Re: Re: Keeping focus after the WTO

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or even worse, technology transfer goes from the poor to the rich.  For
example, if indigenous people develop a medicine, multinational
corporations can patent it and declare it to be intellectual property.
Sam Pawlett wrote:

>
>  But with TRIPS and the various intellectual property and technology
> agreements that are specifically designed to ensure that tech transfer
> does not occur, how is it supposed to occur? And with the majority of
> the populace gaining something from it?
>

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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