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.
An important intellectual property right that can drive investment into Gulf cooperation council countries.
The role and significance of data have evolved over the years for industries and countries alike.
China is making great strides in regulating digitization. Some aspects are similar to European approaches, but Chinese laws on data security and protection go much further. This may result in a threat to European business models.
The statement of the EU-US Trade and Tech Council did not mention China by name. But the conclusion of the meeting signals that prospects for a transatlantic "united front" against China might be overblown from the start. Here are the takeaways of the latest effort to shore up trade and investment dynamics between two superpowers.
This monograph—authored by a subset of GTIPA members—explores the leading challenges facing the WTO and offers a number of policy recommendations for how to address them.
The vastly differing rate at which developed and developing countries have been able to procure COVID-19 vaccines has exposed major inequities in global vaccine access. In an effort to boost developing countries access to COVID-19 vaccines, some have proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) grant a broad IP waiver to enable more widespread vaccine production. A proposal from India and South Africa requesting a WTO waiver from certain international IP standards (TRIPS provisions) applying to COVID-19 vaccines and related health products is under consideration.
How trade secrets and other IPRs underpin innovation and manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines.
The exhaustion of globalization has increased steadily in recent years. The Covid-19 shock reached the world at the previous height of the systemic conflict between Chinese state capitalism and the increasingly divided transatlantic West. The European Union is largely sluggish in its response. In Europe, on the other hand, the nation-state hierarchies show themselves to be able to act.
The proposed WTO TRIPS waiver would strip pharmaceutical companies of their intellectual property rights and greenlight foreign firms to reproduce versions without licensing agreements or necessary know-how.
The theme of this focus is the phenomenon of "black boxes", partly due to the popular "feedback system" that many digital platforms use to collect data on user satisfaction with the goods or services rendered: given that an algorithm, to certain elementary conditions, it is an intellectual work, the claim to know its precise functioning can be frustrated by the refusal of the company that owns the algorithm to make some parts of it public. Under these conditions, various labor law principles appear inapplicable and obsolete.