Publication of the week: Jae Sundaram

Sundaram, J., “Analysis of TRIPS Agreement and the justification of international IP rights protection in the WTO’s multilateral trading system, with particular reference to pharmaceutical patents”,  Information & Communications Technology Law 24.2 (2015), 121-163. DOI: 10.1080/13600834.2015.1004244

The entry of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement has seen the developing countries and the least developed countries suffer from the excessive burden of obligations imposed under the Agreement to embrace and implement a higher standard of IP protection. One of the areas where the impact of the measures is most felt is on accessibility to affordable medicines for frontline treatment of diseases in developing countries and LDCs, where the majority of the HIV/AIDS sufferers come from. This article seeks to study the justification for an extended IP rights protection under the TRIPS Agreement through an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of the IP rights and the patent regime. Jae argues that the TRIPS Agreement is a major obstacle that the developing countries and the least developed countries have been made to face as Members of the WTO (World Trade Organisation), with no end in sight for their miseries, and that the only possible solution is a review or an amendment of the TRIPS Agreement.

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Mr Jae Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer in International Trade and Maritime Law. A dual qualified lawyer, Jae practised for a number of years before taking to academics. He specialised in Maritime Law and International Trade Law in his LLM and taught at the University of Plymouth before moving to Buckingham. He teaches International Trade and Maritime Law, Law of World Trade, and Commercial Conflict of Laws in the LLM Programme. He is also a tutor for Torts and Contract Law in the LLB Programme.  His research interests focus on Maritime Law, International Trade, World Trade, and Commercial Conflict of Laws.