2006
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.963103
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NGOs, Intellectual Property Rights and Multilateral Institutions

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“…236 Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (2002), p 167. The important role to be played by NGOs is considered in Matthews (2006). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…236 Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (2002), p 167. The important role to be played by NGOs is considered in Matthews (2006). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…8 Evidence from the US semiconductor industry, which shows that firms do not rely heavily on patents to appropriate returns, is at odds with a dramatic rise in patenting in this sector since the mid-1980s-one account is a strengthening of patent laws. 9 Thus, we might explain a significant proportion of the explosion in patenting by a need of private players to engage in defence practices as a sort of insurance against possible legal actions from other companies. To this end, the accumulation of sufficient patent thickets, increases in defensive publishing 10 and so on are not about a general market-led drive to innovate more than before (despite headline figures).…”
Section: More Patenting Activity-a Good Thing?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…europa.eu/innovation-smes/src/cis.htm). 9 The subsequent spawning of "patent portfolio races" among capital-intensive firms also facilitated entry by specialized design firms. It seems that firms in such industries take more patents than felt necessary simply to protect them from imitation, and it also appears that this tendency is getting stronger.…”
Section: Formulating the Questionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…NGOs such as the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) and Health Action International (HAI) got first involved in these issues in the mid 1990s, and were soon joined by an array of other NGOs including, most importantly, two heavyweight, nonpartisan international NGOs, the Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) and Oxfam (Sell and Prakash 2004;Matthews 2006). Like business actors had linked IP protection to the advancement of free trade before them, this NGOs network linked strong IP protection for pharmaceuticals with restricted access to HIV/AIDS medicines (and pharmaceuticals more generally) and unnecessary loss of human life and health.…”
Section: Establishing Linkages Between Issues and Regimes: The Heamentioning
confidence: 99%