| Description |
1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Editors' Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Why We Study Intellectual Property Rights and What We Have Learned; Notes; References; PART 1 Intellectual Property, Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Licensing; PART 2 Intellectual Property Exhaustion and Parallel Trade; PART 3 Intellectual Property, Market Structure, and Innovation; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
International policies towards protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyright, trademarks and other forms of intellectual property have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94), members of what is today the World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which sets out minimum standards of protection that most of the world's economies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intellectual property -- Economic aspects
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Law and economic development
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Intellectual property -- Economic aspects.
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Law and economic development.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maskus, Keith E
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| ISBN |
9780821383483 |
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0821383485 |
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