Trade and Intellectual Property

It’s difficult to achieve innovation without the protection of ideas, and as a growing share of global economic value creation and exchange has become knowledge-based, intellectual property rights and protections have become an increasingly important facet of global trade. This category includes all GTIPA-member reports addressing trade and IP issues.

OPINION: Canadian Investment in Intellectual Property Products is Too Low

Minister, your 2022 federal budget rightly highlighted the importance of economic growth for Canadians’ future prosperity and the fiscal health of Canadian governments.

C.D. Howe Institute Mon, 05/09/2022

USTR Jabbed for Blocking Congress’s Access to TRIPS Waiver Negotiations

At a pair of congressional hearings last month, legislators criticized U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai for her continued efforts to negotiate away American intellectual property rights without consulting Congress.

Property Rights AllianceWed, 05/04/2022

Fewer essential medicines on patent

Our analysis of patenting on the WHO’s latest Essential Medicine List (22nd edition, 2021) shows a decline in the percentage of patented medicines for the first time.

Geneva NetworkTue, 05/03/2022

COMPETERE CELEBRATES WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY

Competere, together with 105 other think tanks and advocacy organizations in 50 countries, celebrates World Intellectual Property Day. Property Rights Alliance launches an open letter addressed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Director-General Daren Tang.

CompetereTue, 04/26/2022

Property Rights Alliance Celebrates World IP Day, Launches Open Letter to WIPO

Property Rights Alliance, in partnership with 106 think tanks and advocacy organizations in 51 countries, is proud to launch an open letter celebrating World Intellectual Property Day, addressed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Director-General Daren Tang. We stand with content creators and rights holders around the world to fight for stronger, more effective intellectual property rights. This year PRA is delighted to support WIPO’s theme “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future.” Strong intellectual property rights help to incentivize research, boost innovation, and support recovery efforts.

Property Rights AllianceTue, 04/26/2022

On the Absence of the Treatment of Property Rights in the Economic Literature

The truth is that for most economists, property rights are just a fact, something that is assumed, without considering that certain propositions should be a requirement to be able to answer later other fundamental questions of economic analysis.

Fundación Internacional BasesThu, 04/21/2022

An Intellectual Property Box for Canada: Why and How

Canada Needs an “IP Box” to Spur Flagging Innovation

C.D. Howe Institute Tue, 04/05/2022

TRIPS Waiver Fast Facts

Property Rights Alliance and our alliance partners have warned repeatedly that a waiver of intellectual property rights at the World Trade Organization is a distraction from getting as many vaccines into the arms of people around the world in the shortest amount of time possible.

Property Rights AllianceThu, 03/31/2022

Opinion: The COVID-19 TRIPS IPR Waiver Remains a (Bad) Solution Searching for a Problem

Waiving IP rights will not solve the challenges faced by global vaccination efforts because underdeveloped distribution infrastructure remains the real problem.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationFri, 03/25/2022

Global Coalition Opposing a TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines

The Austrian Economics Center and the Hayek Institut are against the revocation of IP rights for producers of vaccines and COVID-19-related products.

Austrian Economics CenterTue, 03/22/2022

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