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" REGIONALIZED PROTECTION OF   REGIONALIZED PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY   DISHARMONIZING TRENDS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIMES   By   Faizan M. Warraich LLB (Hons.) American Legal Studies (Birmingham) LLM Business Law (Birmingham)   After the inauguration of Paris and Berne Conventions, and later on formation of international organizations and treaties such as WTO, TRIPS and WIPO every step has been taken to create harmonization or greater uniformity in the intellectual property protection laws throughout the world. But while these efforts are made, there is at the same time an increasing sense of dissatisfaction on these laws between developed and less developed countries. These stringent laws certainly deprive the less developed countries from free access of much needed information, knowledge and do not take into consideration their abilities, interests and cultural differences. Recently it has been seen that access to medicines or patented formulas for medicines is in severe need in developing countries and governments have often breached IP right protections in order to make available cheap medicines for their local population. Some examples include India and Brazil where HIV patents are reportedly breached and cheap local medicines are produced. Furthermore, there is strong criticism on the TRIP's agreement that it is not well equipped to handle latest Internet and communications technologies.   With such realistic scenario on the ground, the step taken by less developed countries certainly harm the harmonization process intended to work. Two different blocks are made now, where developed countries are using bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements to pressurize less developed countries. And at the same time insertions of…