An explicit goal of the 1994 TRIPS Agreement was to secure export markets for a wide variety of knowledge goods in … which industrialized countries had long held a competitive advantage. In more fundamental terms, however, the TRIPS …-one years later, the TRIPS Agreement has neither confirmed the worst fears of developing countries nor accomplished the greatest …

support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …)? Finally, can the structure of TRIPS—both in terms of the core obligations it imposes on the WTO members and the flexibilities …