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Global Intellectual Property Rights

Knowledge, Access and Development

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  • © 2002

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  1. Peter Drahos

    1. Australian National University, Australia

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  2. Ruth Mayne

    1. Oxfam GB, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Peter Drahos
      Pages 1-9

  3. Innovation and Diffusion of Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Exploring the Hidden Costs of Patents

      • Stuart Macdonald
      Pages 13-39

    3. Pro-competitive Measures under TRIPS to Promote Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries

      • Carlos M. Correa
      Pages 40-57

  4. Development and Access to Technology: Genetics, Health, Agriculture, Education and Information Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Intellectual Property and the Human Genome

      • John Sulston
      Pages 61-73

    3. Access to Medicine and Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord: Models for State Practice in Developing Countries

      • James Love
      Pages 74-89

    4. Access to Medicines: Patents, Prices and Public Policy — Consumer Perspectives

      • Kumariah Balasubramaniam
      Pages 90-107

    5. Agricultural Research: Intellectual Property and the CGIAR System

      • Michael Blakeney
      Pages 108-124

    6. Don’t Ignore Copyright, the ‘Sleeping Giant’ on the TRIPS and International Educational Agenda

      • Alan Story
      Pages 125-143

    7. Digital Millennium or Digital Dominion? The Effect of IPRs in Software on Developing Countries

      • Gary Lea
      Pages 144-158

  5. Knowledge and Access: Who Makes the Rules?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Negotiating Intellectual Property Rights: Between Coercion and Dialogue

      • Peter Drahos
      Pages 161-182

    3. TRIPS and Developing Countries: How Level is the Playing Field?

      • Willem Pretorius
      Pages 183-197
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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 behaviour 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian National University, Australia

    Peter Drahos

  • Oxfam GB, UK

    Ruth Mayne

About the editors

KUMARIAH BALASUBRAMANIAM Pharmaceutical Adviser, Consumers International, Malaysia MICHAEL BLAKENEY Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary Property Research Institute, London CARLOS M. CORREA Director, University of Buenos Aires Masters Programme on Science and Technology Policy and Management MARTIN KHOR Director of the Third World Network GARY LEA Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, London University JAMES LOVE Director, Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology, USA STUART MACDONALD Professor of Information and Organization, Sheffield University RUTH MAYNE Oxfam GB Policy Adviser SOL PICCIOTTO Professor of Law, Lancaster University Law School WILLEM PRETORIUS Barrister SUMAN SAHAI Gene Campaign, India ALAN STORY Law School, University of Kent JOHN SULSTON Founder of the Human Genome Project, Cambridge

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