Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Abbreviations, Overview

1 Scope of the paper

2 Description and background of TRIPS
2.1 The history of international agreements
2.2 Enforcement of IPRs
2.3 A summary of changes introduced by TRIPS
2.4 Outstanding issues in TRIPS
2.5 TRIPS and current IPR policy issues in Australia

3 Economic considerations
3.1 The economic rationale of IPRs
3.2 Cross-border spillovers of R&D benefits
3.3 Forms of IPR protection for R&D
3.4 Patent policy issues
3.5 Policy issues concerning industrial designs
3.6 Policy issues concerning copyrights
3.7 The rationale for trade marks
3.8 Parallel importing
3.9 The impact of TRIPS on developing countries

4 Statistical analysis
4.1 Different approaches to quantitative analysis
4.2 The Maskus indices
4.3 Estimated patent content of production and trade
4.4 The economic contribution of copyright protected industries
4.5 Applications and registrations
4.6 A brief overview

APPENDICES

A IP law and international agreements
A.1 Intellectual property rights broadly defined
A.2 Patents
A.3 IPR protection of biological innovations
A.4 Industrial designs
A.5 Trade marks
A.6 Geographical indications
A.7 Copyrights and neighbouring rights
A.8 Circuit layout rights
A.9 Protection of undisclosed information

B The Australian Maskus indices

C The patent content in trade

D Trade in copyright material

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