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Patent and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries

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ISBN-10: 0199840679

ISBN-13: 9780199840670

Edition: 2012

Authors: Srividhya Ragavan

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For developing countries, the concept of sustainable development, as opposed to rapid pockets of development, embodies great promise for socio-political reasons. Most analyses of development, however, have focused on either trade mechanisms or intellectual-property regimes, which has resultedin overly narrow and sometimes paradoxical conclusions, with corresponding policy measures that have promised far more than they can deliver. While each of these mechanisms has benefits and disadvantages, questions about how they would interact and what kind of results they produce remain largelyunexplored. Similarly, almost all of these regimes provide generalized solutions that developing countries…    
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Book details

List price: $104.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 8/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Srividhya Ragavan is Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law. Ragavan's scholarship focuses on the interplay between international trade law and intellectual property issues with a developmental perspective. Her scholarship has been published in leading journals in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Arizona State Law Review, the Duke Journal of Law and Technology, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Her publications explore such diverse topics as trade, traditional knowledge, pharmaceutical patenting, and agricultural subsidies. Ragavan is the author, recently, of Patent and Trade Disparities in Developing…    

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Correlation Between Patents and Development: Lessons From History
The Unequals: National Realities and Patent Regimes of the Developing World
The International Trade Regime in Perspective
The Poor Nations Harmonize
The Missing Piece of the TRIPS Puzzle: Procedural Mechanisms
TRIPS Patent Regime: The Poverty Penalty
Is A Substantive Regime Adequate to Generate Full Compliance? The Biotechnology Debate
Dying to Dine-The Story of the Great Agricultural Barrier
The Debate on Plant Variety Protection
Harvesting Poverty: The PBR Story in a Subsidy Plot
Biodiversity: The Third but Ignored Paradigm of the Trade Regime
Can the Trade Regime Lead to Sustainable Development?
Index