附註:"ICTSD, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
TRIPS and development -- TRIPS and the international system on genetic resources -- The WIPO agenda -- Plant variety protection and patents on life forms -- TRIPS and public health -- IPRs and the protection of traditional knowledge -- Regional initiatives -- National legislative reforms.
摘要:An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world. This globalizing trend has shifted the balance of interests between private innovators and society at large and tensions have flared around key public policy concerns. As developing nations' policy options to use IPRs in support of their broader development strategy are being rapidly narrowed down many experts are questioning the one-size-fits-all approach to IPR protection and are backing a rebalancing of the global regime. Developing countries face huge challenges when.