Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy [Paperback]

Keith E. Maskus (Author)

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"A comprehensive and useful survey . . . Destined to become a major point of reference for . . . economists and policymakers interested..." -- -Carlos A. Primo Braga, Manager, infoDev, the World Bank

"A real 'tour de force'. .It will undoubtedly be the standard treatment for some time . . ." -- -Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute

"One of the best books ever written about IPRs. Anyone embarking down [this] trail had better fasten their safety belts." -- J.H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Prof. of Law, Duke University, Journal of International Economic Law (2001)

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Over the past 15 years, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have moved from an arcane area of legal analysis and a policy backwater to the forefront of global economic policymaking. In the 1990s dozens of countries unilaterally strengthened their laws and regulations in this area, and many others are poised to do likewise. At the multilateral level, the successful conclusion of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) elevates the protection and enforcement of IPRs to the level of inviolable international commitment.

The new global system emerging from IPRs comes with benefits as well as costs. Their increasing importance raises international economic policy questions that evoke impassioned and exaggerated claims from both advocates and opponents of stronger property rights in information. In the first economic assessment of the effects of stronger international IPRs in one volume, Keith E. Maskus examines these competing claims through a comprehensive analysis of the economic impacts of extended international protection and partial harmonization of IPRs. He brings together recent studies of various aspects of the issue and performs new quantitative and qualitative analyses. He presents findings that will be applied to a number of important policy questions on the very new phenomenon of IPRs.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Institute for International Economics (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881322822
• ISBN-13: 978-0881322828
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #819,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars General review about the same, March 4, 2001

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pavan godiawala (AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT INDIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy (Paperback)

The book is execellently drafted, edited. the intellectual property is an indespensable asset for any firm and the said assets needs protection from infringement and recognition not only in the domestic market but also in the international market. The trade mark, copyright and patent is the most worthiest intellectual property and runs the show of the company in this competitive market. Patent is granted to the product aswell as the process/method of product. the value of medicine are going to shoot up if the product is patentable. If the product of the foreign goods are patented than monopoly is created and in our country (India) where only the process is patentable and product is never patentable, if the foreign goods which are patentable comes in our economy than such goods will be expensive as no other similiar/identical goods of our country can sell such goods. It may create unneccessary concentration of economic power. Trade mark is granted to the mark, logo, symbol while copyright is granted to the exclusive work and patent to the invention. Said law of all the country should be in one line then and then intellectual property can be protected in one another country. I have not purchased the said book but i have gone through the same i feel very interesting and its very pragmatic and visionary for the coming days. The same was not available in our city (Ahmedabad) in the state of Gujarat INDIA.