Global Change and Intellectual Property Agencies

Global change and the core IP trade off - an introduction; national and international IP institutions - the core patent cycle of business and basic mandates; the evolution of intellectual property agencies in the 1990s; patents, the protection role and core IP interests; the IP dissemination roles and dispersed emerging interests; tradeamrks and IP institutions; copyright regulatory institutions; the emerging role of the WTO - trade-related IP and relations with WIPO.