Intellectual Property Rights - Legal and Economic Challenges for Development (Hardcover)

In recent years, Intellectual Property Rights - both in the form of patents and copyrights - have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement. Moreover, for the first time in history, the IPR regime has become increasingly uniform at international level by means of the TRIPS agreement, irrespectively of the degrees of development of the various countries. This volume, first, addresses from different angles the effects of IPR on the processes of innovation and innovation diffusion in general, and with respect to developing countries in particular. Contrary to a widespread view, there is very little evidence that the rates of innovation increase with the tightness of IPR even in developed countries. Conversely, in many circumstances, tight IPR represents an obstacle to imitation and innovation diffusion in developing countries. What can policies do then? This is the second major theme of the book which offers several detailed discussions of possible policy measures even within the current TRIPS regime - including the exploitation of the waivers to IPR enforcement that it contains, various forms of development of 'technological commons', and non-patent rewards to innovators, such as prizes. Some drawbacks of the regimes, however, are unavoidable: hence the advocacy in many contributions to the book of deep reforms of the system in both developed and developing countries, including the non-patentability of scientific discoveries, the reduction of the depth and breadth of IPR patents, and the variability of the degrees of IPR protection according to the levels of a country's development.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	June 2014
Editors:	Mario Cimoli (Director of the Production; Professor of Economics) • Giovanni Dosi (Professor of Economics and Director) • Keith E. Maskus (Professor of Economics) • Ruth L. Okediji (William L. Prosser Professor of Law) • Jerome H. Reichman (Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	540
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-966075-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > Intellectual property, copyright & patents Promotions
LSN:	0-19-966075-1
Barcode:	9780199660759

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