Global Intellectual Property Rights : Knowledge, Access and Development

by Edited by Peter Drahos and Ruth Mayne

• ISBN13: 9780333990278
• ISBN10: 0333990277
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education, and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behavior of multinationals, rather than democratic dialogue. The final section of the book suggests strategies aimed at developing more flexible standard for poor countries, and for keeping knowledge in the intellectual commons.

Author Biography

Peter Drahos is at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Ruth Mayne is a Policy Adviser at Oxfam-GB.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Preface	x
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Peter Drahos
Part I Innovation and Diffusion of Technology
Exploring the Hidden Costs of Patents	13	(27)
Stuart Macdonald
Pro-competitive Measures under TRIPS to Promote Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries	40	(21)
Carlos M. Correa
Part II Development and Access to Technology: Genetics, Health, Agriculture, Education and Information Technology
Intellectual Property and the Human Genome	61	(13)
John Sulston
Access to Medicine and Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord: Models for State Practice in Developing Countries	74	(16)
James Love
Access to Medicines: Patents, Prices and Public Policy -- Consumer Perspectives	90	(18)
Kumariah Balasubramaniam
Agricultural Research: Intellectual Property and the CGIAR System	108	(17)
Michael Blakeney
Don't Ignore Copyright, the `Sleeping Giant' on the TRIPS and International Educational Agenda	125	(19)
Alan Story
Digital Millennium or Digital Dominion? The Effect of IPRs in Software on Developing Countries	144	(17)
Gary Lea
Part III Knowledge and Access: Who Makes the Rules?
Negotiating Intellectual Property Rights: Between Coercion and Dialogue	161	(22)
Peter Drahos
TRIPS and Developing Countries: How Level is the Playing Field?	183	(18)
Willem Pretorius
Part IV Ownership of Knowledge: Changing the Rules
Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights and TRIPS	201	(13)
Martin Khor
India's Plant Variety Protection and Farmers' Rights Legislation	214	(10)
Suman Sahai
Defending the Public Interest in TRIPS and the WTO	224	(20)
Sol Picciotto
The Global Campaign on Patents and Access to Medicines: An Oxfam Perspective	244	(15)
Ruth Mayne
Index	259