Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

Name: Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781803925226
Price: 3518.19 HKD
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Author: Bita Amani; Caroline B. Ncube; Matthew Rimmer
ISBN: 9781803925226

Edited by Bita Amani · Caroline B. Ncube · Matthew Rimmer

Edward Elgar Publishing February 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781803925226
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: February 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.

This comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and invaluable insight, chapters explore IP’s role in ending poverty and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion. Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP institutions, agreements, and laws to achieve a more sustainable future.

The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development. It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners working in private law, technology law, comparative law and international law.

Foreword: Our Future Commons xvi; Christine Milne AO; Introduction: ‘The people’s agenda’: a history of intellectual property and sustainable development 1; Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer; 1.
Intellectual property’s role in eliminating poverty: SDG 1 37: J. Janewa Osei-Tutu; 2.
SDG 2: Zero hunger, food and plant-related intellectual property, and access to plant genetic resources 50: S. Ali Malik; 3.
The tobacco endgame: intellectual property, human rights, and sustainable development 74: Matthew Rimmer; 4.
SDG 3b: Patent law and access to medicines 107: Emmanuel Kolawole Oke; 5.
Genetic patents and the Sustainable Development Goals 124: Jorge L. Contreras; 6.
Copyright, access to knowledge, and SDG 4 in Southern Africa 142: Desmond Oriakhogba and Lonias Ndlovu; 7.
Prioritising inclusion: the nexus of disability rights, Sustainable Development Goals on education, and intellectual property interests 175: Paul Harpur and Michael Ashley Stein; 8.
Intellectual property and gender inequality: towards sustainable development—or sustaining the status quo? 198: Carys J. Craig; 9.
Intellectual property’s other: a new social–natural contract for the advancement of access to clean water and sanitation 224: Jessica C. Lai; 10.
Renewable energy technology and intellectual property rights: global public goods 243: Felicity Deane and Chelsea Bodimeade; 11.
Economic growth requires idea generators 262: Sharon K. Sandeen; 12.
SDG 9: Innovation, intellectual property and gender equity 281: Myra Tawfik and Marcia Valiante; 13.
Sustainable patent governance of artificial intelligence: recalibrating the European Patent System to foster innovation (SDG 9) 299: Guido Noto La Diega, Gabriele Cifrodelli and Artha Dermawan; 14.
Open prosthetics: intellectual property, 3D printing, medical innovation, and sustainable development 323: Matthew Rimmer; 15.
Some more equal than others: critical contexts for the (false) promises of intellectual property rights 350: Bita Amani; 16.
Greener cities: intellectual property and data in sustainable smart cities 376: Natasha Tusikov; 17.
Responsible production and consumption (SDG 12) – a new emphasis for material lifespans in intellectual property rights regulation? 398: Taina Pihlajarinne; 18.
SDG 13 and intellectual property rights: a complex conundrum 415: Krishna Ravi Srinivas; 19.
SDG 14, ocean sustainability and transfer of marine technology: the role of UNCLOS and international intellectual property law 438: Md Mahatab Uddin and Md Saiful Karim; 20.
Epistemic injustice: intellectual property, biodiversity and traditional knowledge 458: Daniel F. Robinson, Miri (Margaret) Raven and Simon Lumsden; 21.
The role of the World Intellectual Property Organization in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda 481: Faith O. Majekolagbe; 22.
Branding as a tool to promote geographical indication exports and sustainable development in Africa 499: Titilayo Adebola; 23.
Access to science, technology, and innovation: intellectual property, human rights, and sustainable development 522: Caroline B. Ncube; 24.
Intellectual property, foreign investment and sustainable development 537: Peter K. Yu; 25.
The COVID-19 crisis: intellectual property and sustainable development during the pandemic 559: Muhammad Zaheer Abbas; Conclusion: ‘Blueprints for a better world’: the future of intellectual property and sustainable development 582; Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer; Coda: Blue sky solutions: a transformative vision for the 2030 Agenda 611; Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer