DOHA: The developed world rejected India’s offer of a diluted reference to concerns about intellectual property rights (IPR) in the climate negotiations as the talks in Doha peaked.For almost two weeks the developed world – the US, EU, Japan, Canada and New Zealand and others had continuously claimed that the negotiations were not a place to discuss concerns about intellectual property rights turning green technologies too costly for the poor countries to afford. The US and EU insisted that the talks on this issue should shut without a word on IPR while others said the right place for this was the World Trade Negotiations , where decisions are not taken by consensus, unlike at the UN climate talks.After about 12 days, on Thursday near midnight, India proposed a milder reference to the issue of IPR in the negotiating text after having sounded off the developed partners in bilateral meetings. The reference, the Indian delegate, TS Tirumurti repeatedly explained did not add more than existing language on IPRs in the climate negotiations but ensured that the weight and value it had got so far over the past years of talks was retained even as the 194 countries moved towards finalizing a global climate deal by 2015.But the reaction from the developed world was blunt and straightforward – no IPR issues in climate change talks. Other developing countries, including Brazil, China, Philippines, Argentina and several others kept standing up in India’s support hoping that the developed world would settle for the compromise but there was no relent from the other side.Negotiators from the developing world camp speaking later on Friday early morning after talks on the issue ended unresolved, warned, “We offered a compromise, but we are not going to settle for nothing. The developed countries do not even want to put on record that it is an issue on which countries yet do not agree. They just want the issue erased from the talks as if it is not and has never been a concern. That will not sell.”With the talks officially required to close on Friday night, the developed countries refused to budge from the position they had taken at the very beginning of the Doha rounds of climate negotiations. It is a usual negotiating tactic to start from asking the sky and then settle for somewhere in between the stratosphere and the dust on the ground.However, the obdurate blocking by US and others indicated that they were playing to collapse the talks as they had nothing to gain from letting technology and other such issues move forward in coming years.