Intellectual property in the World Trade Organization
Subtitle: turning it into developing countries' real property
By: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ; [prepared by Mohan Kumar]
Contributors: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Series: UNCTAD series on assuring development gains from the international trading system and trade negotiations; UNCTAD series on assuring development gains from the international trading system and trade negotiations
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Intellectual property (International law); Intellectual property; Foreign trade regulation; World Trade Organization
Description: The paper examines the development implications of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and aims to offer suggestions on how to reduce the agreement's development deficit and increase its development friendliness. The paper provides a historic overview of the TRIPS negotiations, the agreement itself and the development deficits therein. It also presents the broader context surrounding intellectual property (IP) issues, namely, on the one hand, the increasing trend towards higher IP standards and on the other hand, the growing insight on the need to rebalance existing IP rules. It also analyses selected aspects of the TRIPS Agreement, highlighting their development implications.
Notes: "UNCTAD/DITC/TNCD/2006/8."

Includes bibliographical references.