Trips Plus And Biodrugs: Imperative Poise Between IP Fundamentalism And Access To Biodrugs

Introduction

TRIPS (standing for Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights) has led to the coming up of unified IPR protection norms or what can be termed as minimum standards of IP Protection across the different jurisdictions in the world. 'TRIPS plus', however, can be termed as a 'much greater set of standard of IP protection than 'TRIPS', ¹ that is basically lobbied upon the developing countries, by the developed countries of the world.

On the other hand, Bio drugs are "complexly structured large molecule drugs which are usually derived from metabolic processes of living cells for treatment, diagnosis and prevention of diseases." It encompasses vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic proteins and gene therapy products.