The Intellectual Property Regime: Are There Lessons for Climate Change Negotiations?

18 Pages Posted: 16 Jan 2011

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Peter Drahos

Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS); Queen Mary University of London, School of Law; School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet)

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Date Written: November 30, 2010

Abstract

Does the evolution of the intellectual property regime hold any lessons for the climate change regime? The paper argues that the architecture of the intellectual property regime recognizes the complexity of free riding behaviour and divides the problem amongst a number of treaties. The integration of intellectual property trade standards into the trade regime provides plaintiff states with a way to inflict both political and economics costs on free riders. Perhaps the most important lesson relates to the way in which a highly coordinated international business network was able to shift intellectual property into the multilateral trade regime and obtain standards most countries at the time did not really want because they were net intellectual property importers.

Keywords: climate change negotiations, intellectual property negotiations

Suggested Citation

Drahos, Peter and Drahos, Peter, The Intellectual Property Regime: Are There Lessons for Climate Change Negotiations? (November 30, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1740048 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1740048

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