1 Introduction:The Big Stakes in Selling Knowledge 1
The Ever-Elusive Balance 4
The Policy Landscape 9
Four Ideas to Improve the Global System Today 16
Organization of the Book 22
2 The Big Global Upgrade:Is It Working? 25
How the Situation Has Changed 26
Intellectual Property Right Reforms and Innovation 35
Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer 64
Country Experiences and "Catching Up" with Intellectual Property Rights 82
Summary 91
3 Global Governance 93
TRIPS Finishes Its Test Ride 94
The World Intellectual Property Organization Does Its Part 117
When TRIPS Is Not Enough 120
A Powerful Pushback 133
The New Enforcement Emphasis 137
Summary 142
4 Regulating a Stressed System 143
Cleanup in Aisle Global Patent 144
The Standards Question 158
Exhaustion:Your Price or Mine? 172
Geography Made Delicious 189
Digital Dilemmas 204
Enforcement Economics 222
Summary 231
5 Intellectual Property Rights and Global Policy Challenges 233
Intellectual Property Rights,Policy Space,and Development 234
Patent Problems and Progress in Public Health 251
Technology Transfer and Climate Change 270
Agriculture and Genetic Resources 280
Trading in Traditions 294
Knowledge as an International Public Good 297
Summary 312
6 Revitalizing a Tired System 313
Pressures to Move On 314
Extending the Long and Strained TRIPS? 316
Reaching for Balance beyond the World Trade Organization 318
Future Vision 322
A Final Observation 326
References 329
Index 351