Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements.

Half title page -- Title page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Contents -- Detailed Table of Contents -- On the Authors and Editors -- Part I: General Issues -- Chapter 1: The Development Agenda for Intellectual Property Rational Humane Policy or 'Modern-day Communism'? -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PLAN -- III. THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA -- IV. ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINE -- V. COMPULSORY LICENSING AND THE FLEXIBILITY OFTHE TRIPS AGREEMENT -- VI. DATA EXCLUSIVITY -- VII. INCENTIVES FOR INNOVATION -- VIII. THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AND IPR POLICY -- IX. IN CONCLUSION -- X. POST SCRIPT -- Chapter 2: TRIPS-Plus Rules under Free Trade Agreements: An Asian Perspective -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENERAL BACKGROUND OF FTAS -- III. TRIPS-PLUS RULES AND THEIR IMPACTON ACCESS TO MEDICINES -- IV. TRIPS-PLUS RULES AND THEIR IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE -- V. TRIPS-PLUS RULES AND THEIR IMPACTON ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE -- VI. CONCLUSION -- Part II: Law and Policy of Multilateral v Bilateral Agreements -- Chapter 3: The Changing Landscape of International Intellectual Property -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TRIPS LESSONS -- III. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS -- IV. TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY -- V. CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: TRIPS and FTAs: A World of Preferential or Detrimental Relations? -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENERAL OVERVIEW: THE WTO AND FTAS -- III. THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND FTAS -- IV. OVERLAP OF NON-DISCRIMINATION PROVISIONS IN TRIPS,GATT AND GATS -- V. THE PHENOMENON OF 'TRIPS PLUS' PROVISIONS -- VI. THE ROLE AND POTENTIAL IMPACT OF INVESTMENT RULES -- VII. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5: The Most-Favoured Nation Treatment and Intellectual Property Rights -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONAL TREATMENT -- III. THE MFN PRINCIPLES IN GATT AND TRIPS.

IV. INTERPRETING COMPLIANCE-IP AND POSSIBLEDISCRIMINATION SCENARIOS UNDER GATT AND TRIPS -- V. CONCLUDING SUMMARY -- Part III: FTAs and Patents -- Chapter 6: Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals:Doha versus Free Trade Agreements -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST PARALLELIMPORTATION OF MEDICINES -- III. MULTILATERAL CONSENSUS ON PARALLEL IMPORTATIONOF MEDICINE -- IV. BILATERAL CONSENSUS ON PARALLEL IMPORTATIONOF MEDICINE -- V. CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7: Free Trade Agreements, UPOV and Plant Varieties -- I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- II. FROM MYTH TO REALITY-THE EFFECT OF FTAS -- III. THE CASE OF LATIN AMERICA- A COMPARISON BETWEEN TRIPS AND THE FTAA -- IV. THE CASE OF PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY: UPOV IN FTAS AND THE STRENGTHENING OF INTELLECTUAL MONOPOLIES OVER AGRICULTURE -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Part IV: FTAs and Copyrights -- Chapter 8: Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND THE DMCA -- III. HOW THE US IS EXPORTING THE DMCA PROVISIONS VIA FTAS -- IV. WHY THE US IS EXPORTING THE DMCA PROVISIONS VIA FTAS -- V. THE IMPACT OF THE US EXPORTING DMCA PROVISIONS -- VI. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1-COMPARISON OF THE GENERAL IP AND THE COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS OF RECENT US FTAS -- APPENDIX 2-COMPARISON OF DMCA PROVISIONS IN SUSFTA AND AUSFTA -- Chapter 9 Copyright and Free Trade-A Korean Perspective -- I. GLOBAL TREND TOWARDS FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS -- II. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION AND FTA -- III. THE US-KOREAN FTA AND KOREAN COPYRIGHT LAW -- IV. CONCLUSION -- Part V: FTAs and Antitrust -- Chapter 10: International Antitrust and Intellectual Property -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ANTITRUST LAW IN THE TRIPS AGREEMENT -- III. PARADIGM OF AN INTERFACE PROBLEM: THE MICROSOFT CASE -- IV. IP ANTITRUST LAW IN CUSTOMS UNIONS AND FREE TRADE AREAS -- V. CONCLUSION -- Index.

This book deals with the important topic of the implications of free trade agreements for the international framework of intellectual property law.

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