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Emerging Markets and the World Patent Order

Edited by Frederick M. Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law, Florida State University College of Law, US,

Carlos M. Correa, Professor and Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics (CEIDIE), Law Faculty,

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and

Peter Drahos, Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, The Australian National University and Chair in Intellectual Property, Queen Mary,

University of London, UK

Description The patent has emerged as a dominant force in 21st century economic policy. This book examines the impact of the BRICS and

other emerging economies on the global patent framework and charts the phenomenal rise in the number of patents in some of these countries.

Contributors include: F.M. Abbott, D. Borges Barbosa, C.M. Correa, P. Drahos, M. El Said, C. Fink, P. Gehl Sampath, K. Karachalios,

R. Kher, J. Kuanpoth, A. Kudlinski, T. Payosova, P. Roffe, S.K. Sell, Y. Tamura, G. Van Overwalle, Y.A. Vawda, H. Zhang, W. Zhuang

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Public Policy and Global Technological Integration

F.M. Abbott & D. J. Gerber eds., Kluwer Law International (1997)

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 Overview

New technologies are developing at a tremendous pace. They transform global political, economic, and social relations in ways that often present unique challenges to public policymakers who must plan for the future in a landscape subject to the constant changes of global technological integration.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) faces these challenges in the context of regulating world trade, particularly in implementing the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS). The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) must adapt to the challenges in regulating intellectual property rights and in promoting the development of technological infrastructure.

Governments and international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission are concerned with the impact of technological integration on global and regional competitive environments. The result: Numerous proposals for protecting the process of competition have emerged. These proposals would consider the rapidly changing nature of the world economy, the key role played by technological integration, and potential concerns raised by the concentration of ownership of technology.

Public Policy and Global Technological Integration examines the relationship between the legal systems governing international trade, intellectual property rights, and international competition, and offers ideas about their future.

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Edited by Stefan A. Riesenfeld and Frederick M. Abbott

Awarded the 1995 American Society of International Law "Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship"

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This book represents the culmination of a project initiated in 1990 which brought together a distinguished group of judges, scholars and government officials to address the role of parliaments in the making and implementation of international treaty law.

Treaties are increasingly employed to define the rights and obligations of individuals in the field of human rights, to regulate the participation of persons (both individual and corporate) across the broad spectrum of economic activity within and across national boundaries, as well as to control human activity as it impacts on the environment. These are matters which historically were largely within the regulatory competence of national authorities, but now are increasingly the subject of international legislation. But the role of the parliament with respect to the making of international legislation has remained substantially confined within a customary historical model.

For the past several centuries, the national executive has played the principal role in the initiation, negotiation, conclusion and operation of treaties. The parliament's role has been secondary, being largely confined to the approval or rejection of engagements proposed by the executive. Over the past decades there has been a movement in a number of countries toward a more active role for parliament, particularly with respect to demands to provide guidance to the executive. Nevertheless, while the historical distribution of treaty powers may remain appropriate in traditional areas of executive prerogative (for example, in the realm of political relations and national security), one must question the extent to which increased parliamentary participation is adequate in relation to the making of international law by treaty, particularly when the treaty is an instrument with national legislative effects.

This volume is an important and timely resource for those who wish to pursue the question of the actual or desirable role of parliaments in the making and operation of treaties.

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