International public goods and transfer of technology under a globalized intellectual property regime / edited by Keith Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman.

Papers from the Conference on International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globaized Intellectual Property Regime, held in April 2003 at Duke University.

Includes index.

Part 1.International provision of public goods under a globalized intellectual property regime -- Section 1.The concept of public goods in the expanding knowledge economy -- 1.The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods. Keith E.Maskus and Jerome H.Reichman -- 2.The regulation of public goods. Peter Drahos -- 3.Distributive values and institutional design in the provision of global public goods. Peter M. Gerhart -- Section 2.Preserving the cultural and scientific commons -- 4.Koyaanisqatsi in cyberspace: the economics of an Out-of-balance regime of private property rights in data and information. Paul A. David -- 5.Linkages between the market economy and the scientific commons. Richard R. Nelson -- Comment I.Public goods and public science. Eric Maskin -- 6.Sustainable access to copyrighted digital information works in developing countries -- 7.Agricultural research and intellectual property rights. Robert E. Evenson -- Comment II: Using intellectual property rights to preserve the global genetic commons: the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Laurence R. Helfer -- Part II.Innovation and technology transfer in a protectionist environment -- Section 1.Technology transfer under international intellectual property standards -- 8.Can the TRIPS Agreement foster technology transfer to developing countries. Carlos M. Correa -- 9.Patent rights and international technology transfer through direct investments and licensing.Keith E. Maskus, Kamal Saggi, and Thitima Puttitanum. Comment II: TRIPS and technology transfer - evidence from patent data. Samuel Kortum -- 10.Proprietary rights and collective action: the case of biotechnology research with low commercial value. Arti K. Rai -- Section 2.Stimulating local innovation -- 11.Do stronger patents induce more local innovation? Lee G. Branstetter -- 12.Markets for technology, intellectual property rights, and development -- 13.Using liability rules to stimulate local innovation in developing countries: application to traditional knowledge. Jermoe H. Reichman and Tracy Lewis -- 14.Stimulating agricultural innovation -- Part III.Sectoral issues: essential medicines and traditional knowledge -- Section 1.Developing and distributing essential medicines -- 15.Managing the hydra: the Herculean task of ensuring access to essential medicines -- 16.Theory and implementation of differential pricing for pharmaceuticals. Patricia M. Danzon and Adrian Towse -- 17.Increasing R& D incentives for neglected diseases: lessons from the orphan drug act -- Section 2.Protecting traditional knowledge -- 18.Legal and economic aspects of traditional knowledge -- 19.Saving the village: conserving jurisprudential diversity in the international protection of traditional knowledge -- 20.Legal perspectives on traditional knowledge: the case for intellectual property protection. Thomas Cottier and Marion Panizzon . Comment: Traditional knowledge, folklore and the case for benign neglect. David L. Lange -- 21.Protecting cultural industries to promote cultural diversity: dilemmas for international policymaking posed by the recognition of traditional knowledge. Rosemary J. Coombe -- Part IV.Reform and regulation issues -- Section 1.Balancing public and private interests in the global intellectual property system. 22.Issues posed by a world patent system. John H. Barton. 23.Intellectual property arbitrage: how foreign rules can affect domestic protections. Pamela Samuelson. -- 24.An agenda for radical intellectual property reform. William Kingston. Comment: whose rules, whose needs? Balancing public and private interests. Geoff Tansey -- 25.Diffusion and distribution: the impacts on poor countries of technological enforcement within the biotechnology sector. Timothy Swanson and Timo Goeschl -- 26.Equitable sharing of benefits from biodiversity-based innovation: some reflections under the shadow of a neem tree -- Section 2.The role of competition law -- 27.The critical role of competition law in preserving public goods in conflict with intellectual property rights. Josef Drexl -- 28.Expansionist intellectual property protection and reductionist competition rules. Hanns Ullrich -- 29.Can antitrust policy protect the global commons from the excesses of IPRs?.Eleanor M. Fox.Comment I.Competition law as a means of containing intellectual property rights. Carsten Fink -- 30.Minimal standards for patent-related antitrust law under TRIPS . Mark D. Janis. Comment II: Competitive baselines for intellectual property systems. Shubha Ghosh -- Section 3.Dispute settlement at the WTO and intellectual property rights -- 31.WTO dispute settlement: of sovereign interests, private rights, and public goods. Joost Pauwelyn. 32.The economics of international trade agreements and dispute settlement with intellectual property rights. Eric W. Bond -- 33.Intellectual property rights and dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization. Wilfred J. Ethier -- 34.WTO dispute resolution and the preservation of the public domain of science under international law. Graeme Dinwoodie and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss. 35.Recognizing public goods in WTO dispute settlement: who participates? Who decides? The case of TRIPS and pharmaceutical patents protection. Gregory Shaffer.

In this volume, distinguished economists, political scientists and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with basic research, education, public health and environmental protection.