The Intellectual Property Debate: Perspectives from Law, Economics And Political Economy (New Horizons in Intellectual Property)

✍ Scribed by Meir Perez Pugatch

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intellectual property (IP) has become one of the most influential and controversial issues in today’s knowledge-based society. This challenging book exposes the reader to key issues at the heart of the public debate now taking place in the field of IP. It considers IP at the macro level where it affects many issues. These include: international trade policy, ownership of breakthrough technologies, foreign direct investment, innovation climates, public-private partnerships, competition rules and public health where it is strongly embedded in contemporary business decision-making. Meir Pugatch has assembled an international and diverse cast of contributing authors, who offer new insights into a broad span of the most pressing IP-related issues. They shed light on the increasing dominance of IP in the design and execution of basic and applied research, the evaluation of intangible assets, and the protection and management of knowledge assets, underscoring its importance in relation to national economic development strategies and business strategies of knowledge-based industries and companies. The Intellectual Property Debate will be of appeal to scholars, practitioners, and government officials interested in the fields of international trade and intellectual property policy, intellectual property law, technology transfer and valuation, and international business.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction: debating IPRs......Page 15
1. A critical analysis of the TRIPS agreement......Page 31
2. The TRIPS agreement: 2. The TRIPS agreement: the damage
to the WTO......Page 47
3. Can stronger intellectual property rights boost trade, foreign direct investment and licensing in developing countries?......Page 58
4. The enforcement of intellectual property rights: an EU perspective of a global question......Page 76
PART II IPRs, business and public–private partnerships......Page 93
5. What is an idea worth?......Page 95
6. Intellectual property policies and scale neutrality: strategic management implications for SMEs......Page 117
7. Encouraging cooperation among the academic, government and private sectors in US biomedical R&D......Page 132
8. University technology transfer policy matters: is it time for a ‘Bayh- Dole Modernization Act’?......Page 153
PART III IPRs, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology......Page 171
9. Pharmaceutical innovation and intellectual property rights: a global public good?......Page 173
10. The realities of TRIPS, patents and access to medicines in developing countries......Page 184
11. Patenting genes......Page 201
PART IV IPRs, competition, access and antitrust in the age of the information society......Page 225
12. Balancing intellectual property rights and competition law in a dynamic, knowledge-based European economy......Page 227
13. Technology, time and market forces: the stakeholders in the Kazaa era1......Page 244
14. Author’s rights and internet regulation: the end of the public domain or constitutional re-conceptualization?......Page 282
PART V IPRs and geographical indications......Page 305
15. Geographical indications and TRIPS......Page 307
16. The treatment of geographical indications in recent regional and bilateral free trade agreements......Page 319
17. Geographic indications, trade and the functioning of markets......Page 359
Conclusion: placing IPRs at the heart of the public discourse......Page 375
Index......Page 379