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Torremans, Paul --- "The Agenda for the Future" [2007] ELECD 209; in Torremans, Paul; Shan, Hailing; Erauw, Johan (eds), "Intellectual Property and TRIPS Compliance in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007)

Book Title: Intellectual Property and TRIPS Compliance in China

Editor(s): Torremans, Paul; Shan, Hailing; Erauw, Johan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845428754

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: The Agenda for the Future

Author(s): Torremans, Paul

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

13. The agenda for the future
Paul Torremans*
One of the major points to emerge from the essays in this book is that TRIPs
is not perfect and nor is it the final stage in the development of the interna-
tional intellectual property framework. China has now entered the interna-
tional intellectual property scene and one can hope and expect that it will play
a major constructive role in its future developments. On too many occasions
in the past China has been threatened with trade sanctions for not doing
enough to protect intellectual property, while China itself has then reacted by
looking inward and doing enough to thwart these threats by increasing protec-
tion for intellectual property. This strategy is counterproductive. The Chinese
economy needs an efficient intellectual property system, including its enforce-
ment arm, if it is to develop further. There will be ever more Chinese, as well
as foreign, intellectual property to protect. Various authors have demonstrated
in this book that this message has now been taken on board by the Chinese
authorities and that they are developing an intellectual property system along
these lines. China is ready to move on and to play a proactive role in the inter-
national intellectual property arena. Its main trading partners are therefore also
well advised to move on from their strategy to spur on China by threatening
trade sanctions to a more constructive attitude that encourages the formation
of a strategic partnership to further develop the international protection of
intellectual ...