TRIPS and Developing Countries

Edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy, the late Rudolph J.R. Peritz, formerly Professor and Director, IProgress Project, New York Law School, US and Marco Ricolfi, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Turin and Tosetto Weigmann and Associati, Turin and Milan, Italy

Contents:

Introduction
Rudolph J.R. Peritz

1. When Framing Meets Law: Using Human Rights as a Practical Instrument to Facilitate Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
Duncan Matthews

2. Issue and Strategies of China IP Law after the TRIPS Agreement
Lifang Dong

3. Patent and Trademark Rights in Commercial Agreements Entered by the USA with Latin American Nations in the First Decade of the Twenty First Century: Divide et Vinces
Horacio Rangel-Ortiz

4. Compulsory Licensing of Intellectual Property: A Viable Policy Lever for Promoting Access to Critical Technologies?
Charles R. McManis and Jorge L. Contreras

5. On TRIPS’ Impact on ‘Least Developed Countries’: The Effects of a ‘Double Standards’ Approach
Gustavo Ghidini

6. Adjudicating TRIPS for Development
Molly Land

7. The IPT Project – Proposals to Reform the TRIPS Agreement
Annette Kur and Marianne Levin

8. Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing: The Nagoya Protocol in the Light of the TRIPS Agreement
Linda Briceno Moraia

9. The Illusion of TRIPS Agreement to Promote Creativity and Innovation in Developing Countries: Case Study on Kenya
James Odek

10. Public Sector Information, Intellectual Property Data and Developing Countries
Marco Ricolfi

Index