A Practical Guide to Working with TRIPS

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Reading the TRIPS Agreement......Page 22
1. What it Means to Work with TRIPS......Page 24
Intellectual Property and Trade Law: Marriage of Convenience, or Shotgun Wedding?......Page 28
Outline of TRIPS Disputes......Page 43
2. TRIPS Law and TRIPS Politics: Legal Clarity and Policy Flexibility......Page 52
TRIPS in the Spotlight......Page 53
Intellectual Property and Trade Law: A Shotgun Wedding?......Page 54
TRIPS in the WTO......Page 56
What Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are ‘Trade-Related’?......Page 58
TRIPS and the New Economy......Page 59
Resistance to TRIPS......Page 62
From a Politics of TRIPS to the Practice of TRIPS......Page 64
‘Defending TRIPS’......Page 66
‘Getting around TRIPS’......Page 67
The Limits to International Lawmaking......Page 68
Access to Medicines and the Compulsory Licensing Debate......Page 70
Power to the Policymakers......Page 72
‘Impossible things’ about TRIPS......Page 73
3. Situating TRIPS Within the WTO: In Practice and in Theory......Page 78
Situating TRIPS in the WTO: Values, Ideology, and Theory......Page 85
Contesting the Idea of TRIPS......Page 87
Roots of the WTO......Page 88
Intellectual Property under the GATT......Page 90
Is TRIPS a ‘Market Access’ Agreement?......Page 95
The Hybrid Structure of TRIPS......Page 98
The Content of TRIPS......Page 102
Part I: General Provisions and Basic Principles......Page 103
Part I: Practical Points......Page 108
Part II: Standards Concerning the Availability, Scope, and Use of IP Rights......Page 109
Substantive Law of Copyright......Page 115
Substantive Law of Trademarks......Page 117
Substantive Law on Geographical Indications......Page 119
Just Getting Along? Geographical Indications, Trademarks, and Coexistence......Page 122
Substantive Law on Patents......Page 125
Substantive Law on Undisclosed (Confidential) Information......Page 129
Part II: Practical Points......Page 131
Parts III and IV: Enforcement and Grant of Intellectual Property Rights......Page 132
Parts III and IV: Practical Points......Page 139
Part V: Dispute Prevention and Settlement......Page 140
Part VII: Institutional Arrangements: Final Provisions......Page 146
Parts VI and VII: Practical Points......Page 151
TRIPS Dispute Settlement in Context......Page 152
The Cause of Action......Page 159
Remedies......Page 163
Dispute Settlement Procedure......Page 166
IP Law and Policy in TRIPS Disputes......Page 169
Practical Insights from Other TRIPS Cases......Page 174
Cross-Retaliation Cases: TRIPS and Market Access under Other Agreements......Page 179
Practical Points......Page 180
6. TRIPS and Global Issues: Navigating IP and Public Policy......Page 182
From the ‘Trade and . . .’ question . . .......Page 183
. . . to debating ‘TRIPS and . . .’......Page 185
TRIPS in the Practice of Public Policy......Page 187
TRIPS and Global Public Goods......Page 188
Core Principles: Law and Policy......Page 190
And in Practice......Page 192
Towards Reconciliation......Page 194
TRIPS and Human Rights......Page 195
Public Health......Page 202
Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples......Page 208
Climate Change......Page 213
Geographical Indications......Page 216
Beyond Zero-Sum: Strategies for Reconciliation......Page 221
7. TRIPS and the Promotion of National Interests......Page 224
Beyond IP Producer versus IP Consumer?......Page 225
And Beyond Zero-Sum Trade-Offs?......Page 228
Assessing Impact in a Changing Context......Page 230
Towards Richer Ideas of ‘Compliance’: Treaty Implementation as Good Policy, and Good Policy as Treaty Implementation......Page 231
Appendix......Page 238
D......Page 246
N......Page 247
T......Page 248
W......Page 249