TRIPS plus 20 - From Trade Rules to Market Principles

This book examines the impact and shortcomings of the TRIPS Agreement, which was signed in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994. Over the last 20 years, the framework conditions have changed fundamentally. New technologies have emerged, markets have expanded beyond national borders, some developing states have become global players, the terms of international competition have changed, and the intellectual property system faces increasing friction with public policies. 
The contributions to this book inquireinto whether the TRIPS Agreement should still be seen only as part of aninternational trade regulation, or whether it needs to be understood - or even reconceptualized- as a framework regulation for the international protection of intellectualproperty. The purpose, therefore, is not to define the terms of an outright revision of theTRIPS Agreement but rather to discuss the framework conditions for an interpretative evolutionthat could makethe Agreement better suited to the expectations and needs of today's globaleconomy.

List of contents

Part I Revisiting the Policy Rationale of TRIPS.- Part II TRIPS as a Legal Framework: Which Geometry?.- Part III Systems Challenges.-Part IV TRIPS and Countervailing Principles.- Part V Exclusivity, Access and Innovation.- Part VI From Enforcing to Enhancing TRIPS.

Summary

This book examines the impact and shortcomings of the TRIPS Agreement, which was signed in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994. Over the last 20 years, the framework conditions have changed fundamentally. New technologies have emerged, markets have expanded beyond national borders, some developing states have become global players, the terms of international competition have changed, and the intellectual property system faces increasing friction with public policies. 
The contributions to this book inquire
into whether the TRIPS Agreement should still be seen only as part of an
international trade regulation, or whether it needs to be understood – or even reconceptualized
– as a framework regulation for the international protection of intellectual
property. The purpose, therefore, is not to define the terms of an outright revision of the
TRIPS Agreement but rather to discuss the framework conditions for an interpretative evolution
that could makethe Agreement better suited to the expectations and needs of today’s global
economy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Josef Drexl (Editor), Reto M Hilty (Editor), Reto M. Hilty (Editor), Matthias Lamping (Editor), Matthias Lamping et al (Editor), Ret M Hilty (Editor), Reto M Hilty (Editor), Hanns Ullrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2016
• EAN: 9783662481066
• ISBN: 978-3-662-48106-6
• No. of pages: 760
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 240 mm x 47 mm
• Weight: 1324 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 760 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Series: MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law; MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Management, B, Business, Law, Economics, Business and Management, trade, International Law, economic growth, Law and Criminology, Innovation/Technology Management, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Industries, Public International Law, Commerce, Research & development management, Mass Media, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Industrial Management, Public international law: economic & trade