Word: doha
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...Will it last? No. The industry will keep defending its turf since drug development is long, costly and uncertain. After Doha, patent-skirters must still meet WTO rules...
...ripple effect of the U.S. anthrax experience spread to Doha, Qatar, where the WTO agreed to a more flexible formula for providing discounted drugs to developing nations dealing with major disease outbreaks. Big drugmakers are still playing hardball, though. Adamant about safeguarding the patent profits that fund drug development, the companies work hard at extending the life of their patents to keep them out of the hands of generic drug makers...
...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
...intimated by the E.U. and the U.S. during the standoff? "No, I intimidated them!" Maran replied. His brinkmanship undoubtedly heralded a coming-of-age for the developing countries, which make up three-quarters of the WTO?s members. Their impact is expected to grow further with the admission at Doha of China into...
With 1.3 billion new consumers on their side in the WTO, the developing world is less likely than ever to be bullied into submission by Europe and America - in Doha or anywhere else...