Competitive Strategies for the Protection of Intellectual Property

edited by Owen Lippert

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction /
  Owen Lippert
• Markets, Institutions, Intellectual Property Rights, and Development in a Knowledge-based World Economy /
  Michael P. Ryan
• Impact of the International Patent System on Productivity and Technology Diffusion /
  Walter Park
• Intellectual Property: A Chip Withheld in Error /
  Robert M. Sherwood
• Intellectual Property Rights and the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Consequences of Incomplete Protection /
  William McArthur
• Implementing the TRIPS Agreement on Patents: Optimal Legislative Strategies for Developing Countries /
  Jayashree Watal
• One Trip to the Dentist is Enough: Reasons to Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights through the Free Trade Area of the Americas Now /
  Owen Lippert
• Entering the Jungle: The Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights and Parallel Imports /
  Carsten Fink
• Intellectual Property Protection in the World Trade Organization: Major Issues in the Millennium Round /
  Sylvia Ostry

Copyright ©1999 by The Fraser Institute. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief passages quoted in critical articles and reviews.

The authors of this book have worked independently and opinions expressed by them are, therefore, their own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the members or the trustees of The Fraser Institute.

Printed in Canada.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Main entry under title:
Competitive Strategies for the Protection of Intellectual Property

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-88975-200-1

1. Intellectual property (International law). 2. Intellectual
property--Economic aspects. I. Lippert, Owen. II. Fraser
Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)

K1401.C663 1999 341.7'58 C99-911278-3

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