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A Patent System for the 21st Century

Authors: Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers, Editors, Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, National Research Council

The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents ...

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Authors: Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, National Research Council

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Imagine sending a magazine article to 10 friends-making photocopies, putting them in envelopes, adding postage, and mailing them. Now consider how much easier it is to send that article to those 10 friends as an attachment to e-mail.

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Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

Authors: James Waldo, Herbert S. Lin, and Lynette I. Millett, Editors, Committee on Privacy in the Information Age, National Research Council

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Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government ...

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The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, much of it well upstream of drugs and other disease therapies.

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Authors: Commitee on Monitoring International Labor Standards, National Research Council

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This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International ...

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Measuring Racial Discrimination

Authors: Panel on Methods for Assessing Discrimination, Rebecca M. Blank, Marilyn Dabady, and Constance F. Citro, Editors, National Research Council

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Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discrimination pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and economic opportunities. Today, large differences among racial ..

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EuroBiz magazine is the internal journal of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, published monthly for Chamber members by SinoMedia Ltd. Distributed to over 20,000 China-based company decision-makers.

This month will see the launch of the European Chamber’s influential Position Paper. It will be in its seventh annual edition. It is written and compiled by the specialists in the respective European Chamber Working Groups, who are seeking increased transparency and fairness in the Chinese economy. Every year the Working Group Position Papers not only outline the issues at stake, but they also highlight key recommendations, including the promotion of international best practices with the objective of creating a level playing field. The Working Groups themselves provide a platform for members to network, raise issues and discuss current challenges.

This is the first position paper since the completion of China’s five-year World Trade Organization (WTO) transitional period, which expired in December 2006. During the transition period, China has undergone an extensive transformation with the opening up of its economy and markets as well as increasing transparency.

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WIPO Magazine, August 2007, NO.4

The bimonthly WIPO Magazine (available in English, French and Spanish) aims to inform readers about WIPO-led activities, and to show intellectual property, creativity and innovation at work across the world.  To subscribe to the printed edition (free of charge), contact  WipoMagazine@wipo.int.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest.

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Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy

By Keith Maskus , the Institute for International Economics, August 2000

"one of the best books ever written about intellectual property rights (IPRs). Maskus's book takes us a long way from your everyday faith-based approach to global IPRs, and anyone embarking down the trail he blazes had better fasten their safety belts."

Over the past 15 years, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have moved from an arcane area of legal analysis and a policy backwater to the forefront of global economic policymaking. In the 1990s dozens of countries unilaterally strengthened their laws and regulations in this area, and many others are poised to do likewise. At the multilateral level, the successful conclusion of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) elevates the protection and enforcement of IPRs to the level of inviolable international commitment.

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