A critical analysis of the TRIPS agreement

The Intellectual Property Debate: Perspectives from Law, Economics and Political Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 17-32

  Blakeney, Michael ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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References (40)

1. See M. Blakeney, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide to the TRIPS Agreement, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1996, ch.2.
2. See P. Drahos, Information Feudalism, London, Zed Books, 2002.
3. For a discussion of the objectives of the TRIPS agreement see M. Blakeney, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide to the TRIPS Agreement, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1996.
4. UNCTAD, The Role of the Patent System in the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries (1975); UNCTAD, The Role of Trade Marks in Developing Countries (1981).
5. F. Machlup, An Economic Review of the Patent System, Study No. 15 of the US Subcommittee on Patents Trademarks and Copyrights, (1959) 85th Congress, 2nd Sess., 79.
6. O.J. Firestone, Economic Implications of Patents (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1971).
7. C.T. Taylor and Z.A. Silbertson, The Economic Impact of the Patent System, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
8. New Product Management, Intellectual Property Management and Services Among Small and Medium-Sized Companies in the UK, London: NPM, 1985.
9. E. Mansfield, 'Patents and innovation: an empirical study' (1986) 32 Management Science 173.
10. D. Llewellyn, 'The Use of Patents by Australian Industry' (1981) 12 Search 389.
11. Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, Industrial Research and Development in Australia, Canberra: AGPS, 1979.
12. Ibid., 139.
13. Industrial Property Advisory Committee, Patents, Innovation and Competition in Australia, Canberra: AGPS, 1984.
14. T.D. Manderville, D.M. Lamberton and E.J. Bishop, Economic Effects of the Australian Patent System, Canberra: AGPS, 1982.
15. E.g. submissions by India (WT/GC/W/147), Dominican Republic and Honduras (WT/GC/W/119) and Venezuela (WT/GC/W/282).
16. M. Stilwell and C. Monagle, Review of TRIPS Agreement Under Article 71.1, Geneva: South Centre, December. 2000.
17. Ibid., para.21.
18. Ibid., para.22.
19. WT/GC/W/147.
20. WT/GC/W/282.
21. World Bank, Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2002: Making Trade Work for the World's Poor, World Bank, Washington DC, 2001, 133.
22. World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, World Bank, Washington DC, 2001, Table 5.11.
23. See e.g. the authorities cited in R. Dunford, 'Is the Development of Technology Helped or Hindered by Patent Law?' (1986) 9 University of New South Wales Law Journal 117.
24. See K. Maskus 'Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment', Policy Discussion Paper No. 0022, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2000, p. 113
25. See K. Maskus 'Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment', Policy Discussion Paper No. 0022, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2000, 2-3.
26. WTO Doc (WT/GC/W/119).
27. E.g. see communications to the Council on TRIPS by Egypt (WT/GC/W/109), India (WT/GC/W/147) and the African Group (WT/GC/W/302).
28. E.g. see WT/GC/W/209.
29. E.g. the USA, WT/GC/W/115.
30. WT/GC/W/193.
31. WT/GC/W/242.
32. UNCTAD, The TRIPS Agreement and the Developing Countries, UNCTAD, Geneva, 1996.
33. See M. Blakeney, 'Transfer of Technology and Developing Countries', (1989) 11 Fordham International Law Journal 690; A.S. Oddi, 'The International Patent System and Third World Development: Reality or Myth' (1987) Duke Law Journal 5, 831.
34. 200 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2000), cert. granted, 148 L. Ed. 2d 954 (2001).
35. 2004 SCC 34, Decision, January 20, 2004.
36. E.g. see W. Lesser, 'Intellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology' (1998) 1(2) AgBioForum 56.
37. These are: Agrevo/Plant Genetic Systems, ELM/DNAP/Asgrow/Seminis, Du Pont/Pioneer, Monsanto/Calgene/Delkalb/Agracetus/PBI/Hybritech/Delta and Pine Lane Co., Novartis, Zeneca/Mogen/Avanta.
38. P. Drahos, 'The rights to food and health and intellectual property in the era of "Biogopolies" ' (2002) European Intellectual Property Review 284.
39. CIPR, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy, London: CIPR, 2002, 119.
40. See P. Drahos, 'BITS and BIPS: bilateralism in intellectual property', (2001) 4 Journal of World Intellectual Property 791.