Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement: Is it Fair? - Hardcover

 
9781847201447: Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement: Is it Fair?
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 184720144X ISBN 13: 9781847201447
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book considers whether the WTO agreement on 'Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights' (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy nations to extract excessive rents from poorer countries. Can TRIPS garner the necessary degree of legitimacy and public trust to deliver economic development? Can it become a key instrument for promoting international health and development? In response to these questions, the book proposes interpretive possibilities for the TRIPS' text along with implementation strategies to avoid the threat of its irrelevancy due, amongst other things, to free trade agreements containing TRIPS-plus terms.

The book discusses the impact of TRIPS from various perspectives, including those of developing countries. It will be of interest to informed citizens, members of NGOs and students and academics concerned with the debate about the impact of TRIPS on access to medicines at affordable prices, the protection of traditional knowledge, and the alleged neo-colonial effect of net revenue outflows from developing nations to developed nations for copyright and patent royalties.

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About the Author

Edited by Justin Malbon, Monash University and Charles Lawson, Professor, Law Futures Centre, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
184720144X
ISBN 13 
9781847201447
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
200
Editor
Malbon Justin, Lawson Charles