Tightening TRIPS: The Intellectual Property Provisons of Recent US Free Trade Agreements


by Carsten Fink, Patrick Reichenmiller

Tightening TRIPS: The Intellectual Property Provisons of Recent US Free Trade Agreements PDF  •  0.08 MB

This note offers an overview of the main elements, in which recent US FTAs go beyond multilateral standards on intellectual property. It also offers a perspective on the intellectual property bargain in
trade agreements, outlines key economic and social implications from the adoption of new intellectual property standards, and discusses several lessons learned.