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Weaving intellectual property policy in small island developing states.
2015
F 619 FOR.W
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Title
Weaving intellectual property policy in small island developing states.
Description
xiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781780682259
9781780685731 ebook
1780685734
9781780685731 ebook
1780685734
Alternate Call Number
F 619 FOR.W
Summary
Pacific Island countries are examples of small island developing states which face internal and external pressures to develop their economies through trade and investment in a global market. Integral to this is compliance with legal regimes often not of their own making. Among these are laws relating to intellectual property, which are imposed both by bilateral and multilateral Free Trade Agreements and by discourses of development. Against the local, regional and international context, this book takes into account the importance of culture to indigenous societies, the social relevance of intellectual property and traditional knowledge, and national and regional strategies for encouraging innovation and creativity. Informed by a number of case studies, the book explores alternative models and approaches for creating an intellectual property framework that is geared towards meeting the particular needs of Pacific Island people in a rapidly changing world. The book focuses on fourteen Pacific Island countries but the issues raised and solutions proposed have resonance for all Small Island Developing States and also many least developed countries.
Note
"This book is concerned only with the independent Pacific island countries of Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati and Palau"--Page 1.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Intellectual property and development: the issues viewed through a Pacific Islands Prism; 2. Health and issues of access to medicine; 3. Access to educational resources; 4. Problems with importing the global intellectual property regime in Pacific Island countries: learning from land; 5. Setting out a new approach to intellectual property and development; 6. Intellectual property and technological innovation in Pacific Island countries: the example of sustainable sea transport; 7. Branding, certifying and authenticating in Pacific Island countries; 8. The regulation of traditional medicine knowledge in Pacific Island countries.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Intersentia, 2015.
Language
English
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