Intellectual property rights and trade expansion

✍ Scribed by Sood, James ;Miller, Ginne Lea

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 690 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-6652
• DOI: 10.1002/tie.5060380205

✦ Synopsis

With the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is expected that there will be increasing interest in expanding this association throughout the Western hemisphere. One of the major obstacles to this expansion, however, is the relative lack of protection for patents, copyrights, and trademarks in some of the Caribbean and Latin American countries. By means of a survey of the Executive Directors of the American Chambers of Commerce in these countries, the study attempts to determine whether the countries would be willing to provide reasonable protection for intellectual property rights in return for acceptance into the enlarged free trade area. The response of the Executive Directors indicates that there is a reasonable probability that many of these countries would indeed strengthen their intellectual property protection for this trade opportunity.