Global intellectual property rights: knowledge, access and development

✍ Scribed by Peter Drahos, Ruth Mayne (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behaviour of multinationals, rather than democratic dialogue. The final section of the book suggests strategies aimed at developing more flexible standard for poor countries, and for keeping knowledge in the intellectual commons.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Exploring the Hidden Costs of Patents....Pages 13-39
Pro-competitive Measures under TRIPS to Promote Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries....Pages 40-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Intellectual Property and the Human Genome....Pages 61-73
Access to Medicine and Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord: Models for State Practice in Developing Countries....Pages 74-89
Access to Medicines: Patents, Prices and Public Policy — Consumer Perspectives....Pages 90-107
Agricultural Research: Intellectual Property and the CGIAR System....Pages 108-124
Don’t Ignore Copyright, the ‘Sleeping Giant’ on the TRIPS and International Educational Agenda....Pages 125-143
Digital Millennium or Digital Dominion? The Effect of IPRs in Software on Developing Countries....Pages 144-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Negotiating Intellectual Property Rights: Between Coercion and Dialogue....Pages 161-182
TRIPS and Developing Countries: How Level is the Playing Field?....Pages 183-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights and TRIPS....Pages 201-213
India’s Plant Variety Protection and Farmers’ Rights Legislation....Pages 214-223
Defending the Public Interest in TRIPS and the WTO....Pages 224-243
The Global Campaign on Patents and Access to Medicines: An Oxfam Perspective....Pages 244-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-281