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Publications

Issue Papers

• NEW: Access to Climate Change Technology by Developing Countries: A Practical Strategy
  By Cynthia Cannady. September 2009.

• Innovation and Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change: Lessons from the Global Debate on Intellectual Property and Public Health
  By Frederick M. Abbott. June 2009.
  

• Technology Transfer in the TRIPS Age: The Need for New Types of Partnerships between the Least Developed and Most Advanced Economies
  By Dominique Foray. May 2009.

• Cross-Retaliation in TRIPS: Options for Developing Countries
  By Dominique Foray. April 2009.

• The Global Debate on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and Developing Countries
  By Carsten Fink and Carlos Correa. February 2009.
  

• Intellectual Property and Competition Law Exploring Some Issues of Relevance to Developing Countries
  By Carlos M. Correa, October 2007.
  

• Intellectual Property Provisions in European Union Trade Agreements: Implications for Developing Countries (français)
  By Maximiliano Santa Cruz S., 2007.
  
  
• Maintaining Policy Space for Development: A Case Study on IP Technical Assistance in FTAs
  By Pedro Roffe, David Vivas-Eugui and Gina Vea, 2007.
  
  
• New Trends in Technology Transfer: Implications for National and International Policy
  By John H. Barton, 2007.
  
  
• Protecting Traditional Knowledge: Pathways to the Future
  By Graham Dutfield, 2006.
  
  
• Intellectual Property and Economic Development: What Technical Assistance to redress the Balance in Favour of Developing Nations?
  By Michel Kosteki, 2006.
  
  

• Technical Assistance for the Formulation and Implementation of Intellectual Property Policy in Developing Countries and Transition Economies
  By Tom Pengelly, 2005.
  
  All Issue Papers produced under the Project on IPRs and Sustainable Development
  
  
  Policy Briefs

• NEW: Negotiating Trade, Innovation and Intellectual Property: Lessons from the CARIFORUM EPA Experience from a Negotiator’s Perspective By Malcom Spence September 2009 (Find here: Short introduction)
  Policy Brief No. 4, September 2009.

• Addressing the Interface Between Patents and Technical Standards in Technical Trade Discussions
  Policy Brief No. 3, February 2009.
  

• Does TRIPS Art. 66.2 Encourage Technology Transfer to The LDCs?: An Analysis of Country Submissions to the TRIPS Council (1999-2007)
  By Suerie Moon. Policy Brief No. 2, December 2008.

• A2K and the WIPO Development Agenda: Time to List the "Public Domain"
  By Dr. Uma Suthersanen. Policy Brief No. 1, December 2008.
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  Books
  
  
• Negotiating Health. Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
  Edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey and David Vivas-Eugui, 2005; published by ICTSD and Earthscan.
  
  
• Resource Book on TRIPS and Development
  This edition last updated 2005.
  
  
• Trading in Knowledge, Development Perspectives on TRIPS, Trade and Sustianability
  Edited by Christophe Bellmann, Graham Dutfield and Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, 2003.


Technical Assistance

• Assessing Technical Assistance Needs for Implementing the TRIPS Agreement in LDCs
  Integrated Project Page
  
  Other Publications
  

• NEW: Technologies for Climate Change and Intellectual Property: Issues for Small Developing Countries
  By Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Information Note 12, October 2009

• NEW: Border Measures Concerning Goods Allegedly Infringing Intellectual Property Rights: The Seizures of Generic Medicines in Transit
  By Xavier Seuba, June 2009.

• Views on the Future of the Intellectual Property System by John H. Barton, Frederick M. Abbott, Carlos M. Correa, Josef Drexl, Dominique Foray and Ron Marchant, June 2007.
  
  
• Assessing Technical Assistance Needs for Implementing the TRIPS Agreement in LDCs A working paper diagnostic toolkit by Mart Leesti and Tom Pengelley, Saana Consulting, for ICTSD, 2007.
  
  
• Policy Coherence and Access to Medicines: A Methodology for Country Case Studies A methodological note by Kamal Saggi, David Vivas-Eugui and Pedro Roffe, 2007.
  
  
• Trade-Related Policy Coherence and Access to Essential Medicine A working paper by Kamal Saggi, 2007.
  
  
• Disclosure Requirements: Ensuring Mutual Supportiveness between the WTO TRIPS Agreement and the CBD, published by ICTSD,IDDRI, CIEL, QUNO and IUCN, 2005.
  
  
• Bilateral Agreements and a TRIPS-Plus World: the Chile-USA Free Trade Agreement by Pedro Roffe, 2004; published by ICTSD, QUNO and QIAP: TRIPS Issue Paper 4.
  Espanol: Acuerdos bilaterales en un mundo ADPIC – plus: El Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Chile y Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
  
  
• Regional and bilateral agreements and a TRIPS-plus world: the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by David Vivas-Eugui, 2003; published by ICTSD, QUNO and QIAP:
  TRIPS Issue Paper 1. Espanol: Acuerdos regionales y bilaterales y un mundo más allá de los ADPIC: El Acuerdo de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA)
  
  
• ICTSD Intellectual Property Rights & Sustainable Development Series (ISSN: 1684-9825):

Vol:3 Commerce, Développement Durable et Propriété Intellectuelle Vus de l'Afrique: Documents présentés au dialogue régional de Dakar, 30 & 31 juillet 2002, ICTSD, Enda Tiers-Monde, Solagral, 2002; sous la direction de Ricardo Melendez Ortiz, Christophe Bellmann, Anne Chetaille & Taoufik Ben Abdallah.

Vol:2 Streamlining Africa’s Responses to the Impact of Review and Implementation of the TRIPS Agreement by Adronico O. Adede, 2001.
Français: Les Impacts de l'Examen et de la Mise en Œuvre de l'Accord sur les ADPIC: Vers une Rationalisation des Réponses Africaines

Vol:1 TRIPS, Biological Resources and Public Health: Documents and Discussion Papers Presented at the ICTSD - Africa Group Round Table, 12 June 2001, ICTSD, 2001.

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