Description
Intellectual Property in Global Governance
A Development Question
Routledge Research in Intellectual Property Series
Author: Oguamanam Chidi
Language: EnglishSubjects for Intellectual Property in Global Governance:
Keywords
genetic; resources; developed; countries; traditional; knowledge; rights; intangible; cultural; heritage; WIPO Development Agendum; WIPO Patent Agendum; Trip Agreement; Global Intellectual Property; Genetic Resources; WIPO 2010b; WIPO 2006a; CESCR General Comment; Global Intellectual Property System; Intellectual Property Order; Global Intellectual Property Policy; International Intellectual Property Lawmaking; Traditional Cultural Expressions; Intellectual Property; Nagoya Protocol; IBSA Country; Ich Convention; TK Holder; Plant Genetic Resources; CESCR; Ich; SPS Agreement; Intellectual Property Norms; Safeguarding Measures; Local Knowledge
Publication date: 04-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2011
280 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Intellectual Property in Global Governance critically examines the evolution of international intellectual property law-making from the build up to the TRIPS Agreement, through the TRIPS and post-TRIPS era. The book focuses on a number of thematic intellectual property issue linkages, exploring the formal and informal institutional interactions and multi-stakeholder holder intrigues implicated in the global governance of intellectual property. Using examples from bio-technology, bio-diversity, bio-prospecting and bio-piracy it investigates the shift or concentration in the focus of innovation from physical to life sciences and the ensuing changes in international intellectual property law making and their implications for intellectual property jurisprudence. It examines the character of the reception, resistance and various nuanced reactions to the changes brought about by the TRIPS Agreement, exploring the various institutional sites and patterns of such responses, as well as the escalation in the issue-linkages associated with the concept and impact of intellectual property law.
Drawing upon multiple methodological approaches including law and legal theory; regime theory, globalization and global governance Chidi Oguamanam explores the intellectual property dynamics in the "Global Knowledge Economy" focusing on digitization and information revolution phenomenon and the concept of a post-industrial society. The book articulates an agenda for global governance of intellectual property law in the 21st century and speculates on the future of intellectual property in North-South relations.
Part I: 1. Introduction and Outlook 2. Global Governance, Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy 3. Global Governance Structures and Regime Dynamics in Intellectual Property Part II: 4. Human Rights in the New Intellectual Property Dynamic 5. Intellectual Property and the Political Economics of Agriculture Part III: 6. Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge in the Global Governance of Intellectual Property 7. Traditional Cultural Expressions, Expressions of Folklore, and Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage 8. Managing Intellectual Property in Global Governance
Chidi Oguamanam is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada and formerly the Director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada.