Global change and intellectual property agencies : an institutional perspective / G. Bruce Doern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doern, G. Bruce.

Series:

Science, technology, and the international political economy series

Science, technology and the international political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property.

Physical Description:

viii, 130 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pinter, 1999.

Contents:

1. Global Change and the Core IP Trade-off: An Introduction 1

The main components of IP 5

IP institutions I: IP protection and dissemination and basic clusters of interests 6

IP institutions II: changing relations between national and international IP agencies 8

Structure and organisation 12

2. National and International IP Institutions: The Core Patent Cycle of Business and Basic Mandates 14

The central business of IP institutions: the application cycle for patents 14

IP agency mandates in brief: going beyond the protection function 17

3. The Evolution of Intellectual Property Agencies in the 1990s 26

Governing structures: emerging from contented obscurity 26

The place of IP in industrial and economic policy priorities 33

4. Patents, the Protection Role and Core IP Interests 40

Pendency, efficiency and agency revenues 41

Length and quality of protection 45

Big business and the protection role 49

The IP profession and the protection role 51

5. The IP Dissemination Roles and Dispersed Emerging Interests 55

IP dissemination I: informing about the current stock of IP information 56

IP dissemination II: a more aggressive value-added dissemination role? 58

IP dissemination III: new users and the fostering of an IP and innovation-oriented economic culture 60

Dispersed interests and the IP dissemination roles 64

6. Trademarks and IP Institutions 69

Trademarks and the IP trade-off 69

The trademark application and registration process 71

IP agencies and their core trademark business 72

Changing trademark issues and related institutional interests 74

7. Copyright Regulatory Institutions 80

Basic international protection 80

Key features of copyright regimes 81

Copyright, technological change and the information highway 85

8. The Emerging Role of the WTO: Trade-Related IP and Relations with WIPO 92

The WTO and TRIPs: key features and political origins 93

The TRIPs Council: early developments 95

The WTO-WIPO relationship 97

Broader trade community influence within nation states 100

Issues in the nature of IP institutional change 106.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-124) and index.

ISBN:

1855675323

OCLC:

39261912