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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799289303321

Autore

Mukherjee Santanu

Titolo

Patent Exhaustion and International Trade Regulation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

90-04-54281-7

9789004542815

9789004542808

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

World Trade Institute advanced studies, , 2405-9331 ; ; volume 13

Disciplina

346.04/8

Soggetti

Intellectual property (International law)

Foreign trade regulation

Patent extensions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - World Trade Institute (Bern, Switzerland), 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intellectual property rights and patents : introduction to intellectual  property rights -- Ubiquity and exhaustion doctrine : ubiquity in patents -- Economics of patents and economic rationale for exhaustion  in relation to international trade -- Evolution of exhaustion : patent exhaustion in different jurisdictions -- Exhaustion and parallel trade : patent exhaustion -- TRIPS agreement : the negotiating history of the trips agreement and patent exhaustion -- GATT 1994 and exhaustion -- General Agreement on Trade in Services and its interface with patent exhaustion -- Free trade agreements and exhaustion : different regional trade  agreements -- Patents and public health : patents and access to medicines - the exhaustion dimension -- Exhaustion and competition policy : patent exhaustion and its relation with competition law and policy -- Conclusion and recommendation : adoption of international  exhaustion of patents, globally.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book addresses this issue of exhaustion most vividly, explaining the rationale of patents, managing ubiquity through patent exhaustion. The evolution of exhaustion principle in different jurisdictions is remarkable. Gradually bringing readers to wto regulation, not only



different modes of exhaustion and treatment of parallel trade is established, but the exegesis of exhaustion principle under trips as well as GATT and GATS is unprecedented"--