The following is excerpted from a 6 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
Innovation is essential for raising living standards, and intellectual property has an important role to play provided an appropriate balance is struck and governments act to help smaller players, the WTO council on intellectual property heard on 7 November 2012.
This item is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news12_e/trip_06nov12_e.htm