Edson Beas Rodrigues, Jr is a lawyer based in Brazil. Between 2004 and 2010, he was a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Direito do Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Part I. Determining the Normative Meaning of the General Exception Clauses
of the TRIPS Agreement: 1. The customary rules of treaty interpretation and
the elements in light of which the general exception clauses of TRIPS shall
be interpreted; 2. Determining the normative meaning of arts. 17, 26(2) and
30 of the TRIPS Agreement; 3. Determining the normative meaning of arts. 13
of the TRIPS Agreement and 9(2) of the Berne Convention; Part II. Putting
to the Test the Capacity of the General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS
Agreement to Promote the Pillars of Sustainable Development: 4. Patents and
the R&D and the Genetic Diagnostic Test Exceptions; 5. Trademarks and the
Parody and Criticism Exception; 6. Industrial designs and the Repair
Exception; 7. Copyright and the Educational Exception for Underprivileged
Students and Researchers.
