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Intellectual Property Law-Making in Developing Countries in the New Century
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Intellectual Property Law-Making in Developing Countries in the New Century
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ABSTRACT
This chapter examines recent developments in Asian intellectual property (IP) law. The attitudes of Asian nations towards post-Doha issues in IP have been arguably embryonic. The frustration of Asian nations with the high-handed manner of the industrial powers and allied institutions in their unrelenting drive to impose layers upon layers of IP laws and measures on them has surfaced from time to time. The plethora of measures proposed each year by the United Stated Trade Representative (USTR) and the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) are suggestive not only of the liberty they take with the affairs of other nations but also of the little respect they have for the institutions and efforts of others. The chapter concludes that foreign, particularly US, criticism and attendant heavy-handed moves to compel Asian nations to implement IP laws are being viewed more and more through Asian eyes as crossing the boundaries of propriety and might easily backfire.
