"Explanatory memorandum" [2011] ELECD 212; in Kur, Annette (ed), "Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System

Editor(s): Kur, Annette

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800099

Section Title: Explanatory memorandum

Number of pages: 81

Extract:

Explanatory memorandum
PART I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
The proposed amendments to TRIPS are the fruit of a project launched
under the title "Intellectual Property Rights in Transition" (IPT) under
the aegis of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law
(Institut för Immaterialrätt och Marknadsrätt, IFIM) at the University of
Stockholm, in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual
Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, the Institute for Civil Law
at the University of Copenhagen, and IPR University Center in Helsinki.
The project was initiated and led by IFIM's director, Marianne Levin,
who was joined in her function as the group's chairperson by Annette Kur.
Niklas Bruun, François Curchod, Jens Schovsbo, Antonina Engelbrekt
Bakardjieva, Frantzeska Papadopoulou, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan and
Andrea Wechsler were involved in the work as permanent or temporary
project group members; Åsa Hellstadius acted as the group's secretary.
The project took its cue from the growing discontent with the development
of Intellectual Property (IP) in the post-TRIPS era. Indeed, what appeared
to be the ultimate breakthrough of IP-oriented law and policy-making on
a global level also marked a culmination point in the sense that the broad
public esteem commanded by IP lost ground. Fuelled by frustration of
expectations raised with regard to the impact of IP on economic welfare,
and resenting the restrictions imposed on communication and exchange of
technology, deep scepticism towards the functioning of the system nowa-
days governs the perception of IP by ...