TRIPS Council Agrees To Extend Non-Violation Moratorium Through 2017

Members of the World Trade Organization have agreed on a draft decision that would extend for two years the existing moratorium on filing non-violation complaints under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The TRIPS Council on Nov. 23 recommended that the draft decision be formally adopted at the WTO's tenth ministerial in Nairobi, Kenya on Dec. 15-18. The draft decision is identical to the one adopted at the ninth ministerial conference in 2013 with the only...