A practical guide to working with TRIPS / Antony Taubman.
2011
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Title
A practical guide to working with TRIPS / Antony Taubman.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call Number
K1401.A41994 T38 2011
ISBN
9780199575206 (pbk.)
0199575207 (pbk.)
0199575207 (pbk.)
Description
xx, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)723432776
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
xiii
List of Tables
xv
List of Abbreviations
xvii
Introduction
xix
Reading the TRIPS Agreement
xxi
1.
What it Means to Work with TRIPS
1
Intellectual Property and Trade Law: Marriage of Convenience, or Shotgun Wedding?
5
Outline of TRIPS Disputes
20
2.
TRIPS Law and TRIPS Politics: Legal Clarity and Policy Flexibility
29
TRIPS in the Spotlight
30
Intellectual Property and Trade Law: A Shotgun Wedding?
31
TRIPS in the WTO
33
What Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are 'Trade-Related'?
35
TRIPS and the New Economy
36
Resistance to TRIPS
39
From a Politics of TRIPS to the Practice of TRIPS
41
'Defending TRIPS'
43
'Getting around TRIPS'
44
The Limits to International Lawmaking
45
Access to Medicines and the Compulsory Licensing Debate
47
Power to the Policymakers
49
'Impossible things' about TRIPS
50
3.
Situating TRIPS Within the WTO: In Practice and in Theory
55
Situating TRIPS in the WTO: Values, Ideology, and Theory
62
Contesting the Idea of TRIPS
64
Roots of the WTO
65
Intellectual Property under the GATT
67
Is TRIPS a 'Market Access' Agreement?
72
4.
A Practical Anatomy of TRIPS
75
The Hybrid Structure of TRIPS
75
The Content of TRIPS
79
Part I: General Provisions and Basic Principles
80
Exhaustion of Rights
85
Part I: Practical Points
85
Part II: Standards Concerning the Availability, Scope, and Use of IP Rights
86
Substantive Law of Copyright
92
Substantive Law of Trademarks
94
Substantive Law on Geographical Indications
96
Just Getting Along? Geographical Indications, Trademarks, and Coexistence
99
Substantive Law on Industrial Designs
102
Substantive Law on Patents
102
Substantive Law on Integrated Circuit Layout Designs
106
Substantive Law on Undisclosed (Confidential) Information
106
Substantive Law on Anti-Competitive Practices
108
Part II: Practical Points
108
Parts III and IV: Enforcement and Grant of Intellectual Property Rights
109
Parts III and IV: Practical Points
116
Part V: Dispute Prevention and Settlement
117
Part V: Practical Points
123
Part VI: Transitional Arrangements
123
Part VII: Institutional Arrangements: Final Provisions
123
Parts VI and VII: Practical Points
128
5.
Trade Rules or Trade Wars? Settling TRIPS Disputes
129
TRIPS Dispute Settlement in Context
129
The Function of TRIPS Dispute Settlement
136
The Cause of Action
136
Remedies
140
Dispute Settlement Procedure
143
IP Law and Policy in TRIPS Disputes
146
Practical Insights from Other TRIPS Cases
151
Cross-Retaliation Cases: TRIPS and Market Access under Other Agreements
156
Practical Points
157
6.
TRIPS and Global Issues: Navigating IP and Public Policy
159
From the Trade and... question...
160
... to debating 'TRIPS and...
162
TRIPS in the Practice of Public Policy
164
TRIPS and Global Public Goods
165
Core Principles: Law and Policy
167
And in Practice
169
Towards Reconciliation
171
TRIPS and Human Rights
172
Public Health
179
Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
185
Climate Change
190
Geographical Indications
193
Beyond Zero-Sum: Strategies for Reconciliation
198
7.
TRIPS and the Promotion of National Interests
201
Beyond IP Producer versus IP Consumer?
202
And Beyond Zero-Sum Trade-Offs?
205
Assessing Impact in a Changing Context
207
Towards Richer Ideas of 'Compliance': Treaty Implementation as Good Policy, and Good Policy as Treaty Implementation
208
Appendix
215
Index
223