This study is based on the author’s doctoral thesis, ‘The Impact of TRIPS on the Pharmaceutical Regulation and Pricing of Drugs in Bangladesh: A Case Study on the Globalising Standard of Patent Protection in WTO Law’, which has been approved for the award of PhD Degree by the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, examined by Professor Thomas Cottier (University of Bern) and Professor Frederick Abbott (Florida State University College of Law) on 22/5/2014.