TRIPS
Minimum TRIPS Terms of Protection for Copyright and Related Rights
Submitted by James Love on 16. May 2009 - 10:37KEI has a page that summarizes the minimum terms of protection for copyright and related rights in multilateral treaties. The most binding constraints are those included in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. Those constraints are as follows:
Most literary and artistic works protected by copyright under the Berne would have a minimum copyright term calculated on the basis of the life of the author plus 50 years.
The Medical Innovation Prize Fund (S.2210, 110th Congress) and the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Submitted by James Love on 1. November 2008 - 10:00I have been asked to elaborate on the relationship between the Medical Innovation Prize Fund (S.2210, 110th Congress) and the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
For centuries, innovation inducement prizes have been suggested as a mechanism to stimulate investments in a wide range of topics. (See, for example, Selected Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs, KEI Research Note 2008:1). During most of this period, the patent system has also existed.
WHO guide on compulsory licensing and government use: Forthcoming?
Submitted by thiru on 8. August 2007 - 12:05On 23 October 2006, the WHO, as an intergovernmental organization with observer status at the WTO TRIPS Council, presented a seven page report on its technical cooperation activities with respect to “Trade, Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines”.
The full document IP/C/W/478/Add.4 can be found on the WTO document database:
http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/docs_e.htm
When customs authorities may allow infringing goods to be imported into the United States
Submitted by James Love on 9. June 2007 - 1:02eBay and compulsory licensing of copyright under Article 44.2 of the TRIPS
Submitted by James Love on 27. May 2007 - 22:00I have written a KEI Research note about Compulsory licensing of copyright under Article 44.2 of the TRIPS, in light of eBay, which is now on the web here.
