The World Trade Organization knowledge agreements /
An examination of the WTO intellectual property and services agreements (TRIPs and GATS).
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of WTO Dispute Rulings
- List of International Instruments
- WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AGREEMENTS
- OTHER AGREEMENTS, CONVENTIONS AND TREATIES
- Part I Globalisation, law and the WTO
- CHAPTER 1 Trade Law as a Global Mediator
- Globalisation and law
- Legal pluralism and inter-legality
- The WTO interface between legalities
- Non-Discrimination
- Market access and intellectual property protection
- Competition policy
- WTO law
- Global carriers
- NOTES
- CHAPTER 2 A global context
- Research
- Outlooks
- Convergence and divergence
- Legal pluralism
- International law making
- Interfaces
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- CHAPTER 3 The World Trade Organization
- The ethos of the WTO
- Agreement making
- The dispute settlement system
- The content of the norms
- Bilateral free trade agreements
- Scope for national regulation
- International regulation
- Competition regulation
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- Part II Services
- CHAPTER 4 The General Agreement on Trade in Services
- Emergence of the GATS
- Status and format of the agreement
- Uruguay Round listings
- The MFN norm
- The national treatment norm
- The market access norm
- The modes of supply
- Domestic regulation
- Financial services negotiations
- GATS and FTAs
- New round negotiations 20002007
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- CHAPTER 5 The case of legal services
- Styles of services supply
- Locations for legal work
- National regulation
- Impact of the GATS
- Country practices
- New negotiations
- Professional standards
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- Part II Intellectual Property
- CHAPTER 6 The agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
- The Uruguay Round
- General provisions and basic principles
- Copyright and related rights
- Patents
- Other categories
- Enforcement provisions
- Special and differential treatment
- Dispute settlement
- National access regulation
- TRIPs and FTAs
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- CHAPTER 7 The case of genetic codes
- Coding food and medicines
- Intellectual property regulation
- The concept of invention
- Exceptions to patentability
- Exceptions to infringement
- Plant variety rights
- Protection for traditional knowledge
- Access to medicines
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- Part IV Convergence
- CHAPTER 8 The case of communications media
- Media freedom and control
- Industry-specific regulation
- Impact of the GATS
- Intellectual property regulation
- Impact of TRIPs
- The WIPO internet treaties
- Competition regulation
- WTO competition re-regulation
- WTO competition and investment agenda
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- Index.