Global change and intellectual property agencies : an institutional perspective / G. Bruce Doern
- Bib ID:
- 752805
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Doern, G. Bruce
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Pinter, 1999
- viii, 130 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1855675323 (hardback)
- Series:
- Science, technology, and the international political economy series.
- Summary:
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Global change affects all areas of public policy and crucial aspects of governing institutions. National and international intellectual property (IP) agencies are increasingly at the fulcrum of such change but are among the least well-examined of governing and policy realms. Among the oldest agencies of government, they are moving from a long era of contented obscurity to one of increasing political and economic exposure and controversy.
This is the first book to examine IP agencies in the context of this transformation. Taking a basic institutional perspective, the book examines the changes in, and relationships among, four national and international IP agencies: the patent offices of the USA, UK, Canada and Australia; the World Intellectual Property Office; the European Patent Office; and the World Trade Organization. Focusing on the 1990s, the book traces institutional changes that have affected the core trade-off in intellectual property policy. These are examined in relation to two broad clusters of interests concerned with protection versus dissemination: the former dominated by big business and the IP professions and the latter by much more dispersed interests.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Global Change and the Core IP Trade-off: An Introduction
- 2. National and International IP Institutions: The Core Patent Cycle of Business and Basic Mandates
- 3. The Evolution of Intellectual Property Agencies in the 1990s
- 4. Patents, the Protection Role and Core IP Interests
- 5. The IP Dissemination Roles and Dispersed Emerging Interests
- 6. Trademarks and IP Institutions
- 7. Copyright Regulatory Institutions
- 8. The Emerging Role of the WTO: Trade-Related IP and Relations with WIPO
- 9. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-124) and index.
- Subject:
- Intellectual property
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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