The Development Agenda Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries

Author: Neil Weinstock Netanel
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780195342109
Published In: January 2009
Format: Hardback , 548 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Brings issues surrounding global intellectual property regulation into focus by a group of prominent scholars who have spent time in the policy arena.
Both sides of this controversial agenda situated within the United Nations are presented by their leading advocates.
A number of methodological approaches are represented, including history, economics, and cultural studies.

The Development Agenda is the result of the recent campaign to ensure that the intellectual property treaty regime permits -- and, indeed, empowers -- developing countries to tailor their intellectual property laws as they deem necessary to promote development and serve the welfare of their citizens. The Agenda's adoption by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in September 2007 was an historic watershed for that UN agency, which has long viewed its mandate as the unabashed promotion of greater intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Written by some of the world's leading IP scholars, Neil W. Netanel has edited this compilation of articles in order to examine the Development Agenda and the broader issues it touches upon. Contributors include leading scholars from various disciplines, including economics, political science, and law, and from countries at various stages of development, including China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, Egypt, and Israel, in addition to the US, Canada, and EU. They also include experts from NGO-think tanks, UNCTAD, and the two Brazilian diplomats who were the leading advocates of the Development Agenda's adoption.

Preface
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Chapter 1
Introduction: The WIPO Development Agenda and its Development Policy Context
The Development Agenda and the International IP Treaty Regime

Chapter 2
The Development Agenda at WIPO: Where Does it Stand?

Chapter 3
TRIPS 3.0: Policy Calibration and Innovation Displacement
The Development Agenda in Historical and Institutional Context

Chapter 4
The WIPO Development Agenda in a Historical and Political Context

Chapter 5
The Politics of Intellectual-Property Reform in Developing Countries: The Relevance of the World Intellectual Property Organization
The Development Agenda: Cautionary Notes from Two Directions

Chapter 6
History Lessons for the WIPO Development Agenda

Chapter 7
The WIPO Development Agenda: A Cautionary Note
Intellectual Property and Development: A Comparative Analysis

Chapter 8
What Direction Is The Wind Blowing? Protection of DRM in China

Chapter 9
Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rains?: Evidence from Domestic Innovation, Technology Transfers, and International Trade Post Patent Implementations in the
Period 1978-2002

Chapter 10
Historical Perspectives on Patent Systems in Economic Development
Access to Medicine

Chapter 11
Expanding Patent Rights in Pharmaceuticals: The Linkage Between Patents and Drug Registration

Chapter 12
Is Product Patent Protection Necessary to Spur Innovation in Developing Countries? R&D by Indian Pharmaceutical Companies after TRIPS

Chapter 13
IPRs and Technological Development in Pharmaceuticals: Who is Patenting What in Brazil after the TRIPS?
Cultural Industries

Chapter 14
The Production of Knowledge, Innovation and IP in Developing Countries: Creative Industries and the Development Agenda

Chapter 15
Arab Musiconomics, Culture, Copyright and the Commons

Chapter 16
Michael D. Birnhack, Trading Copyright: Global Pressure on Local Culture
Industry Structure, Innovation and Access

Chapter 17
Antitrust, Patents, and Developing Nations

Chapter 18
Leonardo Burlamaqui, Innovation, Competition Policies and Intellectual Property: An Evolutionary Perspective and its Policy Implications
Intellectual Property and Developing Country Citizens' Freedom

Chapter 19
Intellectual Property and Development as Freedom

Chapter 20
Contours of an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions

Neil Netanel is a Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles law school. Prior to joining UCLA, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Harvard University, Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University.