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Timeline of privileges regarding the commercialization and use of knowledge. Part 2: 1980 to 1999

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This is work in progress, and is part of a larger project on timelines. This particular timeline is unfinished, and may contain errors.

Timeline of privileged regarding the commercialization and use of knowledge

Timeline collection: Part 1: before 1980 [1], Part 2: 1980 to 1999 [2], and Part 3: 2000 and after [3], and specialized timelines [4].

Part 2: 1980 to 1999

Introduction

1980

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

Appendix 1

This is from Peter Drahos, Developing Countries and International Intellectual Property Standard-Setting [29], Journal of World Intellectual Property, 2002.

Appendix 2

Source: Harvey E. Bale, Jr., Ph.D., Senior Vice President International , Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, PATENT PROTECTION FOR PHARMACEUTICALS: A PLATFORM FOR INVESTMENT, MARKETS AND IMPROVED HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS, (Paper presented to Workshop ID, Cartagena, March 1996. http://www.sice.oas.org/ip/Phrma_e.asp

Table 2

Recent Key Milestones of Progress in IP Protection
for Pharmaceutical Products

U.S. – PTE1984*Romania1992Poland1993
Korea1986Taiwan1992EU – PTE1993*
Japan – PTE1987*New Zealand1992**Philippines1993
Czech Republic1990Russia1992Portugal1993
Slovak Republic1990Thailand1992Slovenia1993
Bulgaria1991Ukraine1992NAFTA1993
Mexico1991Spain1992Macedonia1993
Indonesia1991Canada1987, 1993**Andean Pact1994
Chile1991China1993Hungary1994
Belarus1991Yugoslavia1993WTO1995
Latvia1995

* PTE = Patent Term Extension
** Improvements in Protection from Compulsory Licensing


Appendix 3 Some other timelines

Appendix 4 – Selected biography

  • Adrian Otten, and Hannu Wage, Compliance with TRIPS: The Emerging World View; 29 Vand. Journal of Transnational Law 391 (1996)
  • Carlos Correa, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, A Commentary on the TRIPS Agreement, 2007
  • Carlos M. Correa (Editor), Abdulqawi A. Yusuf (Editor), Intellectual Property and International Trade: The TRIPS Agreement, 2008.
  • Daniel Gervais, TRIPS Agreement – Drafting History and Analysis -2003.
  • Duncan Matthews, Globalising Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPS Agreement, 2002.
  • Ellen F.M. ‘t Hoen, The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power, Drug patents, access, innovation and the application of the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health. 2009
  • Jacques Gorlin, An analysis of the pharmaceutical-related provisions of the WTO TRIPs (Intellectual Property) Agreement, 1999
  • Jayashree Watal, Intellectual property rights in the WTO and developing countries, 2001.
  • Michael Ryan,Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property, 1998
  • Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Mary E. Mogee, and Robin A. Schoen, Editors; National Research Council, Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology, 1993
  • Peter Drahos, John Braithewaite. Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? 2003.
  • Peter Yu, Intellectual property rights in the WTO and developing countries, 2006.
  • Robert Weissman, A Long, Strange Trips: The Pharmaceutical Industry Drive to Harmonize Global Intellectual Property Rules, and the Remaining WTO Legal Alternatives Available to Third World Countries, University of Pennsylvania, Journal of International Economics and Law, Vol. 17:4 1996.
  • Ruth Okediji, Public Welfare and the Role of the WTO: Reconsidering the Trips Agreement, 7 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 819 (2003)
  • Susan Sell, Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights. 2003.
  • Terence Steward The GATT Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History (1986-1994) 1999.
Timeline collection: Part 1: before 1980 [1], Part 2: 1980 to 1999 [2], and Part 3: 2000 and after [3], and specialized timelines [4].
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