Research handbook on the protection of intellectual property under WTO rules / edited by Carlos M. Correa

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why IPR issues were brought to GATT : a historical perspective on the origins of TRIPS / Charles Clift -- Developing countries in the global IP system before TRIPS : the political context for the TRIPS negotiations / Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck -- Minimum standards vs. harmonization in the TRIPS context : the nature of obligations under TRIPS and modes of implementation at the national level in monist and dualist systems / Denis Borges Barbosa -- Enhancing global innovation policy : the role of WIPO and its Conventions in interpreting the TRIPS Agreement / Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Rochelle C. Dreyfuss -- The objectives and principles of the TRIPS Agreement / Peter K. Yu -- Mainstreaming the TRIPS and human rights interactions / Xavier Seuba -- The TRIPS Agreement and intellectual property rights exhaustion / Luis Mariano Genovesi -- Intellectual property rights and competition policy / Beatriz Conde Gallego -- Intellectual property rights in free trade agreements : moving beyond TRIPS minimum standards / Pedro Roffe, Cristoph Spennemann and Johanna von Braun -- Limits, limitations and exceptions to copyright under the TRIPS Agreement / P. Bernt Hugenholtz -- Copyright in TRIPS and beyond : the WIPO Internet Treaties / Ruth L. Okediji -- The protection of 'related rights' in TRIPS and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty / Owen Morgan -- Marks for goods or services (trademarks) / Annette Kur -- Unresolved issues on geographical indications in the WTO / Kasturi Das -- No 'lemons' no more : a sketch on the 'economics' of geographical indications / Dwokem Rangnekar -- Exploring the flexibilities of TRIPS to promote biotechnology in developing countries / Graham Dutfield, Louis Muraguri and Florian Leverve -- Compulsory licensing of patented pharmaceutical inventions : evaluating the options / Jerome H. Reichman -- The Doha Declaration and access to medicines by countries without manufacturing capacity / S.K. Verma -- Disease- based limitations on compulsory licenses under Articles 31 and 31bis / Kevin Outterson -- The protection of semiconductor chip products in TRIPS / Thomas Hoeren -- Data exclusivity for pharmaceuticals : TRIPS standards and industry's demands in free trade agreements / Carlos M. Correa.