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cord-033671-b7lg8099	Athreye, Suma	Twenty-five years since TRIPS: Patent policy and international business	2020-10-12		.txt	text/plain	8878	380	43	We begin by providing a brief background on TRIPS, putting it in the historical context of international agreements on intellectual property (IP) and then looking at the logic of national patent policies, examining how policies may vary across countries, in theory, and reviewing literature that discusses the factors driving historical variation, in practice. The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, which began in 1986 and concluded in 1994 with the signing of the Marrakesh Agreement by all 123 negotiating countries, was notable for numerous reasons, including the formal integration of intellectual property rights into international trade rules. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was launched in 1995, a product of the Uruguay Round, one of its main pillars would be the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Intellectual property rights, the WTO and developing countries: The TRIPS agreement and policy options	./cache/cord-033671-b7lg8099.txt	./txt/cord-033671-b7lg8099.txt