International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property RegimeKeith E. Maskus, Jerome H. Reichman Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants. |
Contents
The Regulation of Public Goods | 46 |
Distributive Values and Institutional Design in the Provision | 69 |
PRESERVING THE CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMONS | 79 |
Linkages Between the Market Economy and the Scientific | 121 |
Developing Countries | 142 |
Agricultural Research and Intellectual Property Rights | 188 |
Innovation and Technology Transfer in a Protectionist | 225 |
Patent Rights and International Technology Transfer Through | 265 |
Conserving Jurisprudential Diversity in | 521 |
The Case | 565 |
Benign Neglect | 595 |
Reform and Regulation Issues | 615 |
Domestic Protections | 635 |
An Agenda for Radical Intellectual Property Reform | 653 |
Private Interests | 662 |
The Impacts on Poor Countries | 669 |
Patent Data | 282 |
The Case | 288 |
STIMULATING LOCAL INNOVATION | 307 |
Markets for Technology Intellectual Property Rights | 321 |
Using Liability Rules to Stimulate Local Innovation in Developing | 337 |
Stimulating Agricultural Innovation | 367 |
Essential Medicines and Traditional | 391 |
Theory and Implementation of Differential Pricing | 425 |
Lessons from | 457 |
Rights Over Free Trade and Intellectual Property Claims | 481 |
PROTECTING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE | 493 |
THE ROLE OF COMPETITION LAW | 707 |
Expansionist Intellectual Property Protection and Reductionist | 726 |
Can Antitrust Policy Protect the Global Commons from | 758 |
Intellectual Property Rights | 770 |
Systems | 793 |
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AT THE WTO AND INTELLECTUAL | 815 |
The Economics of International Trade Agreements and Dispute | 831 |
Intellectual Property Rights and Dispute Settlement in the World | 852 |
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