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North–South trade in intellectual property: can it be fair?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2004

CYNTHIA CANNADY
CYNTHIA CANNADY
Affiliation:
Intellectual Property and New Technologies Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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Abstract

For many developing countries trading in intellectual property has been a spectator sport. Active play in the high stakes game of ‘trading in knowledge’ has been for a few wealthy countries whose institutions and citizens own intellectual property (IP). These IP-owner countries have the equipment needed to play – the funding systems, patent lawyers, marketing support services, and thriving government subsidized research labs and universities – enabling them to turn their research and development into IP, intangible but highly valuable financial assets. In the game of ‘trading in knowledge’, capturing strategic IP portfolios is the goal, and lucrative licensing contracts are the touchdown.

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Review Article
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World Trade Review , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 2004 , pp. 317 - 328
Copyright
2004 Cynthia Cannady

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Footnotes

The views expressed in this review are entirely personal and do not represent in any way official positions of WIPO or its staff.
The book under review is Trading in Knowledge: Development Perspectives on TRIPS, Trade and Sustainability, edited by Christophe Bellman, Graham Dutfield, and Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, 2003, Earthscan Publications, London, pp. 356.