Intellectual property

Ideal Matter: Globalisation and the Intellectual Property Debate

Author: Julian Morris

Publication date:

Saturday, September 12, 2009

This book argues that intellectual property rights are essential to attract knowledge-based industries.

Investment and Access: Brazil's Experience with TRIPs and its Implications for Implementing the Doha Declaration

Publication date:

Monday, June 17, 2002

PDF transcript of Francisco Cannabrava's speech at June 2002 event in Geneva, Switzerland, "Implementing the Doha Declaration on TRIPs and Public Health"

TRIPs and Healthcare: Rethinking the debate

Publication date:

Sunday, July 15, 2001

In this paper, a group of experts from around the world contradict the claim that compulsory licensing of "essential" medicines will benefit the world's poor.

The compulsory licensing anomaly

Author: Bibek Debroy

Publication date:

Sunday, July 15, 2001

If compulsory licensing is retained as a response to perceptions about market failure, it is necessary also to recognise the costs of state failure.