Are we there yet? The WIPO Development Agenda

Thanks as ever to IP-Watch for the timely report of what looks like significant progress at WIPO. A development agenda has essentially been agreed, with only apparent formalities remaining. The backlash emphasising the place of IP might already have started - but as IP-Watch note, even 2 years ago this would not have happened. What will happen NOW is, of course, the big question. How much practical impact will/can the new agenda have?

It might be supported by the declaration of the G8 this month on health and flexilibites in TRIPS http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=647&res=1024; and also by the World Health Assembly agreement on public health, innovation and intellectual property http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/wha02/en/index.html. Such activity. Is the IP and human rights landscape really beginning to change?