The problem of pace: The drive towards a global intellectual property regime.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
ISBN-13: 9780494212110
Subjects: University of Toronto. -- Faculty of Law -- Dissertations.; Intellectual property -- Developing countries.
Description: A commanding movement is underway driven by interest groups in developed countries to re-regulate the global environment with ever-increasing levels of intellectual property protection. The movement's sheer pace not only has repercussions on developing countries and their ability to compete but also may negatively affect innovation in the developed world. The literature suggests strategies available to developing countries to work within the shifting IP environment, but these strategies do not replace the primary importance of developing countries simply continuing to resist the aggressive global IP agenda as best they can. Given there is some consensus that time is needed, it follows that in order to buy that time, generating workable solutions to the collective action problem that faces developing countries, needs to be top priority. Small and mid-sized firms in the developed world have certain aligned interests with developing countries and should consider becoming strategic allies in the fight.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1278.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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