Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets by Clarisa Long (Editor)

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With the globalization of the world economy, developing nations are finding that maintaining competitiveness is a critical factor in development. Intellectual property protection has increasingly become a factor in attracting foreign and domestic investment and in maximizing a country's economic growth potential. As policymakers in developing countries struggle to attract investment and world-class technologies to their shores, they are beginning to pay more attention to their standards of intellectual property protection.

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Examines problems and progress in the area of intellectual property rights in the People's Republic of China, India, and Latin America, focusing on incentives for the protection of intellectual property rights and offering insight into political and economic constraints of each of those markets. Looks especially at the TRIPS Agreement and related issues of nondiscrimination, duration and scope of intellectual property rights, licensing, and dispute settlement mechanisms. Long teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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