Intellectual property rights
- Using patent policy to prevent potentially harmful biofuels markets
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There is a danger that over investing in biofuels can be damaging to the environment and to the economic wellbeing of some developing countries. It is important to promote tough environmental and social investment performance requirements for biofuels.
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- How to protect traditional knowledge
- ( World Intellectual Property Organization , 2009)
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Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities. The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic res...
- What should be considered to improve monitoring of compliance with TRIPS Art. 66.2?
- ( S. Moon / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2008)
- The issue of whether or not technology transfer to less developed countries (LDC) members of the WTO as a result of TRIPS-mandated incentives is a broad question requiring empirical study. This policy...
- Should developing countries avoid TRIPS-plus enforcement standards in the free-trade areas negotiation?
- ( C. Fink;C.M. Correa / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2009)
- This paper seeks to provide an economic perspective on intellectual property rights enforcement. It evaluates the welfare effects of different forms of IPRs infringements and reviews the economic impa...
- Why developing countries have prevailed in the current international conflicts over intellectual property and investment?
- ( K.C. Shadlen / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University , 2009)
- This working paper examines the contemporary politics of IP and investment in the WTO. The paper examines the conflicts that pit developing and developed countries against each other in these two area...
- Supporting patent pools as a tool for promoting innovations
- ( E.F.M. Hoen / Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF , 2009)
- This paper states that many countries were able to use the TRIPS flexibilities to access lower-priced generic drugs. However, as pharmaceutical product patents start to be granted in producing countri...
- The role of public research community in achieving open access to technology
- ( A. Michiels;B. Koo / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008)
- The development of new technologies, together with changes in institutional environments toward privatisation of research outputs, has given scientists different incentives to disseminate their resear...
- How to find the proper balance of competition and innovation protection
- ( A. Pham / CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition (CIRC) , 2008)
- The relationship between competition law and intellectual property rights (IPRs) policy is sometimes mistakenly regarded as pure contradiction. This working paper examines the interface between compet...
- Options for designing and implementing public-health-sensitive patent policies in Developing Countries
- ( C. Correa / South Centre , 2008)
- The implementation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) is emerging as a major concern for all developing countries (DCs). This paper intends to assist the...
- Intellectual property rights as a developmental tool
- ( D. Lippoldt / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2008)
- This policy brief examines key dimensions of the institutional changes with respect to intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries (DCs). Currently, conformity with the minimum global ...
- The bio-piracy of developed countries
- ( E. Mudzonga / Trade and Development Studies Centre – Trust, Zimbabwe , 2007)
- The paper discusses Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) and indigenous medicines. It attempts to bring out issues around these two subjects that are of serious concern between devel...
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