The international political economy of intellectual property rights /

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Main Author: Pugatch, Meir Perez.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2004.
Series:New horizons in intellectual property.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The economic theory of IPRs (patents and trademarks)
  • Economic and political explanations for the emergence of a stronger international IP system
  • The advanced pharmaceutical industry in Europe and IPRs
  • Core IP interests and the organizational structure of the advanced pharmaceutical industry in Europe
  • TRIPs and pharmaceuticals
  • Opposition of developing countries and LDCs to the TRIPs pharmaceutical IP agenda
  • Protecting the international pharmaceutical IP agenda of TRIPs : strategies and activities of the advanced pharmaceutical industry in Europe between 1995 and 1999
  • The dynamics of change within the framework of IPRs.