Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR)

  London September 2002

  The Commission was set up by the British government to look at how intellectual property rights might work better for poor people and developing countries. The first Commission meeting was in London on the 8th-9th May 2001, and the final report was published on 12th September 2002.

"An important new study shows the promise, and pitfalls, of intellectual-property rights for the poor."

Our tasks were to consider:

• how national IPR regimes could best be designed to benefit developing countries within the context of international agreements, including TRIPS;

• how the international framework of rules and agreements might be improved and developed – for instance in the area of traditional knowledge – and the relationship between IPR rules and regimes covering access to genetic resources;

• the broader policy framework needed to complement intellectual property regimes including for instance controlling anti-competitive practices through competition policy and law.

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