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Intellectual Property Summary Papers Links

Intellectual Property Papers

Guifang, Yang. Intellectual Property Rights, Licensing, and Innovation. World Bank Working Paper. February 2003.

Meri Koivusalo. The Impact of WTO Agreements on Health and Development Policies. Globalism and Social Policy Program. January, 2003.

Adede, Adronico Oduogo. "The Political Economy of the TRIPs Agreement - Origins and History of Negotiation." ICTSD, July 2001.

Anderson, Birgitte; Kozul-Wright, Zeljka and Kozul-Wright, Kozul-Wright, Richard. "Copyrights, Competition and Development: The Case of the Music Industry." UNCTAD, January 2000.

Balasubramaniam, K. " Access to Medicines and Public Policy Safeguards under TRIPS ." ICTSD, April 2002.

Berkey, Judson."Implications of the WTO Protections for Food Geographic Indications." American Society of International Law, April 2000.

BIOTHAI, GRAIN, MASIPAG and PAN-Indonesia. "Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A Collective NGO Situationer on IPRs on Rice." May 1998.

Braga, Carlos. Fink, Carsten. "How Stronger Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Affect International Trade Flows." World Bank. February 1999.

Braga, Carlos. Fink, Carsten. Sepulveda, Claudia. "Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development." World Bank, July 1999

"The CBD-TRIPs Relationship." Discussion Paper for the First Regional Workshop on Strengthening Research and Policy-Making Capacity on Trade and Environment in Developing Countries; Los Baņos, Philippines, 11-13 November 1999

Chidyausiku, He Boniface Guwa. "Article 27.3(b) of TRIPS - The Review Process in the WTO and the Developments at Regional/National Level ." ICTSD, July 2002.

Correa, Carlos. "Integrating Public Health Concerns Into Patent Legislation in Developing Countries." South Centre, October 2000. HTML format.

Correa, Carlos. "Intellectual Property Rights and the Use of Compulsory Licenses: Options for Developing Countries." South Centre, October 1999.

Correa, Carlos. "Review of the TRIPs Agreement: Fostering the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries." Third World Network, September 2000.

Dhar, Biswajit. "The Compatibility of CBD with TRIPs." ICTSD, April 2002.

Dutfield, Graham. " Trade, Intellectual Property and Biogenetic Resources: A Guide to the International Regulatory Framework ." ICTSD, 2002.

Dutfield, Graham. "Sharing the Benefits of Biodiversity: Access Regimes and Intellectual Property Rights." Mansfield College and the Center for International Development at Harvard University, February 2000.

Eugui, David Vivas. Issues linked to the convention on Biological Diversity in the WTO negotiations: Implementing the Doha Mandates. June 2002.

Eugui, David Vivas. Issues on the Relationship between E-Commerce and Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO: Implications for Developing Countries. South Centre, September 2001.

Eugui, David Vivas.  Brief on the Treatment of Intellectual Property in the Doha WTO Ministerial Declaration: Mandated Negotiations and Reviews. CIES, February 2002.

Fink, Carsten. "How Stronger Patent Protection in India Might Affect the Behavior of Transnational Pharmaceutical Industries." World Bank, May 2000.

Gansladt, Mattias and Keith E. Maskus. "Parallel Imports of Pharmaceutical Products in the European Union." World Bank, July 2001.

Genetic Resources Action International. "Beyond UPOV: Examples of Developing Countries Preparing Non-UPOV Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection Schemes for Compliance with TRIPS."

Genetic Resources Action International. "For A Full Review of TRIPs 27.3b: An Update on Where the Developing Countries Stand." March 2000.

Genetic Resources Action International and the GAIA Foundation. "Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: The Economic Myths." 1998.

Genetic Resources Action International. "Patenting Life? A Primer on the TRIPS Review." GRAIN, September 1999.

Genetic Resources Action International. "TRIPS Versus Biodiversity: What To Do With the 1999 Review of Article 27.3(b)." May 1999.

Guifang, Yang. Intellectual Property Rights, Licensing, and Innovation. World Bank Working Paper. February 2003.

Hossain, Gul. "The Protection Of Community Rights And Plant Varieties, The Experience Of Bangladesh ." ICTSD, April 2002.

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. "Key Questions for Decisionmakers: The Protection of Plant Varieties under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights." IPGRI, October 1999.

Koivusalo, Meri. The Impact of WTO Agreements on Health and Development Policies. Globalism and Social Policy Program. January, 2003.

Lahouel, Mohamed and Maskus, Keith. "Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: Interests in Unilateral Initiatives and a WTO Agreement." Trade and Development Centre, September 1999.

Lanjouw, Jean and Cockburn, Iain. "Do Patents Matter? Empirical Evidence After GATT." NBER, January 2000.

Maskus, Keith and Bora, Bijit. "Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment." Center for International Economic Studies, May 2000.

Maskus, Keith. "Intellectual Property Issues For the New Round." Institute for International Economics, November 1999.

Maskus, Keith. "Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing Intellectual Property Rights with Competition Policy, Environmental Protection, and Core Labor Standards." World Bank, January 2000

Maskus, Keith and Chen, Yongmin. "Vertical Price Controls and Parallel Imports: Theory and Evidence." World Bank, October 2000.

McCalman, Phillip. "Reaping What You Sow: An Empirical Analysis of International Patent Harmonization." University of California- Santa Cruz, December 1999.

Nielson, Chantal and Anderson, Kym. "GMOs, Trade Policy, and Welfare in Rich and Poor Countries." Center for International Economic Studies, May 2000.

OECD. "Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Genetic Resources: An OECD Survey of Current Practices and Policies." 1996.

Panagariya, Arvind. "TRIPS and the WTO: An Uneasy Marriage." University of Maryland, August 1999.

The Panos Institute. Patents, Pills, and Public Health: Can TRIPS Deliver?London, December, 2002.

Revesz, John. "Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights." Productivity Commission of Australia, May 1999.

Smarzynska, Beata.  "Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Evidence From Transition Economies."  World Bank, 2002.

Smarzynska, Beata. "Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Transition Economies." World Bank, 1999.

South Centre. "The TRIPs Agreement: A Guide for the South. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights." Geneva, 1997.

Subramanian, Arvind. "India as User and Creator of Intellectual Property: The Challenges Post-Seattle." World Bank, December 1999.

Sun, Haochen. "Reshaping the TRIPS Agreement concerning Public Health: Two Critical Issues ." October 2002

Sun, Haochen. "TRIPS and Non-Violation Complaints From a Public Health Perspective." November 2002

Tansey, Geoff. "Trade, Intellectual Property, Food and Biodiversity: Key Issues and Options for the 1999 Review of Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement." Quaker Peace and Service, February 1999

Van Thiel, Servaas. "Public Health versus Intellectual Property." June 2003.

Vivas Eugui, David. "Brief on the treatment of intellectual property in the Doha WTO ministerial declaration: Mandated negotiations and reviews.." CIEL, 2002.

Watal, Jayashree. "Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries: Does the WTO TRIPs Agreement Hinder It?" Institute for International Economics and the Center for International Development at Harvard University, May 2000.

Weeraworawit, Weerawit. "The TRIPs Agreement." World Bank, July 1999.

Wolson, Rosemary A.. " Towards TRIPS Compliance: South Africa's Experience and legislative Reforms ." July 2001, Intellectual Property Manager, University of Cape Town.

World Intellectual Property Organization. "Draft Report on Fact-Finding Missions on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge." WIPO, August 2000.

Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha. The Digital Trade Agenda of the US: Parallel Tracks of Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral Liberalization. Swiss Review of International Economic Relations. March 2003.

Other Resources

"Genetically Modified Organisms and Intellectual Property Rights: What Stakes?" Synthesis of the Panafrican Workshop on 'Exchanges, Training, and Information on the Impact of Genetically Modified Organisms and Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture," November 1999.

Genetic Resources Action International. "Beyond UPOV:
Examples of Developing Countries Preparing Non-UPOV Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection Schemes for Compliance with TRIPS
."

"Indigenous Peoples' Statement on TRIPS." July 1999.

Kaukab, Rashid S. Speech at the Wilton Park Conference. "TRIPs, TRIMs, Agriculture and Services: A Southern Perspective." South Centre, July 1999.

MASIPAG. "Multisectoral Proposal for the Review of WTO-TRIPS Article 27.3(b)." Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development, Philippines. October 1999.

The Organization of American States Foreign Trade Information Service's Intellectual Property page provides detailed information on IPRs.

Puri, Kamal. "Is Traditional or Cultural Knowledge a Form of Intellectual Property?" Oxford Electronic Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, January 2000.

United States Information Agency. "Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace." Economic Perspectives, May 1998. (symposium of articles).

United States Information Agency. "The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights." information page.

World Trade Organization's Intellectual Property Rights Information page.