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Leveraging the International Economy of Intellectual Property

Mandel, Gregory N. - 2014

Most international intellectual property debates ignore the fundamental question of how to optimize the global environment for innovation, focusing instead on whether a particular policy benefits or harms a particular country. The cost of this misplaced focus is significant as states fight...

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A transatlantic divide? : the US and EU's approach to the international regulation of intellectual property trade-related agreements

Pugatch, Meir Perez - 2007

The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual … such a perception is mistaken. The EU certainly seeks to secure TRIPs plus provisions with its negotiating partners …

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Healthcare products trade and external shocks : the US-China trade war and COVID-19 pandemics

Mikić, Mia; Puutio, T. Alexander; Gallagher, James G. - 2020

In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the former situation involved a pair of centrally-placed trading...

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Towards more affordable medicine: A proposal to waive certain obligations from the Agreement on TRIPS

Dhar, Biswajit; Gopakumar, K. M. - 2020

Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) was adopted in 1995 as one of the agreements under the World … Trade Organization (WTO). In 2001, WTO Members emphasised that the "TRIPS Agreement does not and should not prevent Members … to the flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement and many developing countries used these flexibilities to facilitate access …

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Addressing New Service Sector in WTO/FTAs: Express Delivery and India

Mukherjee, Arpita; Pal, Parthapratim; Goswami, Ramneet - 2010

The service sector is evolving. New services and new modes of delivering existing services have increased the complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and in FTAs. The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go beyond market access to seeking regulatory commitments from...

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Selected issues concerning the multilateral trading system

Acharya, Rohini - 2004

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Feed-In Tariffs for Renewable Energy and WTO Subsidy Rules : An Initial Legal Review

Wilke, Marie - 2014

This paper analyzes renewable energy feed-in tariff (FIT) programmes in the context of World Trade Organization (WTO) subsidy rules. By examining the functioning of the FIT programmes implemented by the Canadian province of Ontario, Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) the paper explores how...

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Market Access for African Agricultural Exports : Assessment of the AoA and SPS Agreements

Lemessa, Gashahun; Esmael, Tilahun - 2010

Agriculture plays a critical role in the majority of African Countries’ economy. The sector is not only a major employer but also a significant source of export earnings and hence it has a high multiplier effect. This very fact makes agricultural market access issues of major concern to...

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Neither Here Nor There - Countries that are Neither Developing Nor Developed in the WTO : Geographic Differentiation as Applied to Russia and the WTO

Picker, Colin B. - 2015

There are countries that do not fall under the prevailing definitions of developed and developing country that are employed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO fails to take into account the special circumstances and needs of these countries. While such special circumstances and needs...

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Panel VII : Towards a WTO Framework Agreement on Trade in Energy

Cottier, Thomas; Nartova, Olga; Rubini, Luca; Bigdeli, … - 2010

provisions of other agreements of the WTO, in particular GATT and its instruments, GATS, TRIPS and the GPA. This is not new and … provisions of agreements outside the scope of the WTO, as did the TRIPS Agreement for the Paris and Berne Conventions on …

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