- Title
- Introduction: IP and the Asia-Pacific spaghetti bowl of free trade agreements
- Creator
- Antons, Christoph; Hilty, Reto M.
- Relation
- Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region p. 1-23
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30888-8_1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The contributions to this book show the strategies and policies of countries in the Asia-Pacific region that have to grapple with international standard setting in what has been called the ‘spaghetti bowl’ of criss-crossing free trade agreements. The chapters show how intellectual property is just one among many political and economic factors that are used in trade off discussions. It leads to an often considerable further raising of IP standards in those countries that agree to higher protection levels, often for reasons that have little to do with the provision of incentives for technological progress. A more nuanced picture of IP protection in Asia shows the different interests of high protection countries, ‘first’ and ‘second tier’ newly industrialized and industrializing countries and the rather peculiar position of Australia and New Zealand. The chapter introduces the contributions to this volume according to these various groups of countries and of international law and the political economy of the region.
- Subject
- Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements; forum shifting; Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership; Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356952
- Identifier
- uon:31833
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783642308871
- Language
- eng
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