IGS 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Paris Convention For The Protection Of Industrial Property, Doha Declaration, World Trade Organization

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: International and Global Studies
• Course: IGS 10a
• Professor: Chandler Rosenberger

Document Summary

Must take patents (and pharmaceutical patents seriously). Then there"s the extreme of protecting those patent rights for medicines treating people dying but people are dying in other countries to. Can"t just cling to patents and beat up countries trying to produce life-saving drugs at cheaper costs. This was the story of drugs used to treat aids. Us has worked out an arragnement where pretty much everyone is happy. Inital defense of trips (trade related intellectual property rights) 1883 - paris convention created defense of international patents. Allows for defense of temporary monopoly for firm. Working a patent - making these things where people can learn technical skills of manufacturing the product. Patents were created in part to spread scientific knowledge. Because if i patent something (come up with a drug to cure aids). Part of patent is sending in molecular structure of drug/how to manufacture/all the expirements done.