| Description |
xiv, 281 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Drahos -- Exploring the hidden costs of patents / Stuart Macdonald -- Pro-competitive measures under TRIPS to promote technology diffusion in developing countries / Carlos M. Correa -- Intellectual property and the human genome / John Sulston -- Access to medicine and compliance with the WTO TRIPS accord: models for state practice in developing countries / James Love -- Access to medicines: patents, prices and public policy, consumer perspectives / Kumariah Balasubramaniam -- Agricultural research: intellectual property and the CGIAR system / Michael Blakeney -- Don't ignore copyright, the Sleeping giant on the TRIPS and International Educational Agenda / Alan Story -- Digital Millennium or digital dominion: the effect of IPRs in software on developing countries / Gary Lea -- Negotiating intellectual property rights: between coercion and dialogue / Peter Drahos -- TRIPS and developing countries: how level is the playing field / Willem Pretorius -- Rethinking intellectual property rights and TRIPS / Martin Khor -- India's plant variety protection and farmers' rights legislation / Suman Sahai -- Defending the public interest in TRIPS and the WTO / Sol Picciotto -- The global campaign on patents and access to medicines: an Oxfam perspective / Ruth Mayne |
| Summary |
Global intellectual property in the form of patents and copyright has profound consequences for the ownership of knowledge in the 21st century. This volume examines the relationship between intellectual property and development |
| Analysis |
Intellectual property |
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Globalisation |
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Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights |
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Trade negotiations |
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Knowledge management |
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Developing countries |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Based on papers from an international seminar organised and supported by Oxfam International, held in Brussels, March 2001 -- preface and t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
World Trade Organization.
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| SUBJECT |
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994 April 15) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96041097
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Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
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| Subject |
Intellectual property (International law)
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| Author |
Drahos, Peter, 1955-
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Mayne, Ruth.
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Oxfam GB.
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| LC no. |
2002074831 |
| ISBN |
0333990277 |
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9780333990278 |
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0333990285 |
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9780333990285 |
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