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The purpose of the seminar was to discuss matters related to intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) including recent developments in the area with particular emphasis on their implications for sustainable development. During the seminar four experts on IPR issues gave short presentations in which they ...

This paper analyzes an area that economic analysis of intellectual property has generally ignored, namely, the effects of intellectual property rights on the relative desirability of various strategies for organizing information production. I suggest that changes in intellectual property rules alter the payoffs to information production in systematic and predictable ways that differ as among di...

Open collaboration and sharing of information among scientists at scientific meetings can foster innovation and discovery. However, such sharing can be at odds with potential patenting and commercialization objectives. This tension may be mitigated if certain procedures are followed in the context of scientific meetings. The article first discusses what makes a scientific finding patentable and...

Article history: Received 10 September 2012 Received in revised form 19 March 2013 Accepted 5 April 2013 Available online xxxx This paper analyzes firms' decisions to seek intellectual property rights in global markets, particularly in China.We introduce the notion of a ‘quadic patent,’ defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications filed at the European Patent Office, the Japa...

Massive piracy and counterfeiting has been the subject of a perennial dispute between China and the United States. Although China‘s accession to the World Trade Organization (―WTO‖) has provided the United States with a new weapon in its arsenal—the mandatory dispute settlement process—the recent panel decision on China—Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property ...

This paper presents a panel study of yield developments in the eight main crops over the period from 1961 to 1999 and shows that for most crops, there is absolute convergence to developed-country levels over that time period. Where convergence fails to occur, this can be explained by the exceptionally low rate of diffusion of innovations from developed to developing countries for some crops. We...