Cottier-Holzer, Thomas (2017). Embedding Intellectual Property in International Law. In: Roffe, Pedro; Seuba, Xavier (eds.) Current Alliances in International Intellectual Property Law-Making: The Emergence and Impact of Mega-Regionals. Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System: Vol. 4 (pp. 15-44). Geneva: ICTSD/CEIPI
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The advent of TRIPS-plus provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and mega-regional agreements further reinforces the position of holders of exclusive rights, changing the balance of rights and obligations initially negotiated in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the Paris and Berne Conventions as incorporated into the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Preferential trade agreements largely fail to right the balance, because of successful lobbying by industries of industrialised countries and a willingness of developing countries to envisage higher levels of protection in return for other market access rights and opportunities under the preferential agreement. This evolution reinforces the call to explore the implications of principles and rules outside specific intellectual property (IP) instruments in other parts of public international
law, and WTO law in particular. Embedding protection for intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the overall body of international law, and related fields in domestic law, allows some rebalancing of recent developments in treaty law. It is not an easy task, however, in light of a long tradition of fragmentation
and isolation of intellectual property within public international law.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute |
UniBE Contributor: |
Cottier, Thomas |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation |
ISSN: |
2414-343X |
Series: |
Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System |
Publisher: |
ICTSD/CEIPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pablo Rahul Das |
Date Deposited: |
31 Mar 2020 11:59 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:33 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.140871 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/140871 |
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