Al-Ahram Weekly | Features

IPR: the mother of invention?
Two years in the making, Egypt's new intellectual property rights (IPR) law is proving difficult to deliver and on 18 June Egypt missed its deadline to hand in a new law to the WTO. Niveen Wahish looks into the reason behind the delay and what is at stake

Flying machines and electric toothbrushes
How far can Egyptian creativity travel on the global highway of invention? Al-Ahram Weeklyconsiders the prospects

High-tech transgressions
A booming business in smuggled movies and books works in favour of Egyptian consumers but against Egyptian creators. Soha Abdelaty investigates

Can't pay, won't pay
Alaa Shahine follows the war against software piracy

Anticipating TRIPS
PLEASE, can you spare LE60? My daughter suffers kidney problems and she desperately needs medicine every week that I cannot afford," said a man whom I was passing on the street.--read on--

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 21 - 27 June 2001 Issue No.539
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