"'Minimal' Standards for Patent-Related Antitrust Law under TRIPS"

Description

Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.

Includes the chapter, "'Minimal' Standards for Patent-Related Antitrust Law under TRIPS" by Maurer Professor Mark Janis.

ISBN

9780521603027 (pb.), 9780511126611 (ebook)

Publication Date

2005

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

Cambridge, UK

Keywords

Intellectual Property, Developing countries, patent/antitrust, TRIPS Agreement

Disciplines

Antitrust and Trade Regulation | Intellectual Property Law | Law

Comments

Keith E. Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman, eds. International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology: Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Full bibliographic details available in IUCAT

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library K 1401 .I588 2005

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