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"Preface" [2009] ELECD 362; in Li, Xuan; Correa, M. Carlos (eds), "Intellectual Property Enforcement" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Enforcement

Editor(s): Li, Xuan; Correa, M. Carlos

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848446526

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 8

Extract:

Preface
This book draws on two international symposiums on enforcement
of intellectual property (IP) and development held by the South
Centre1 in October 2007 and September 2008 in Geneva, regarding
recent trends at the national and regional level and new develop-
ments in such forums as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Health
Organization (WHO), the World Customs Organization (WCO),
the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Group of Eight developed coun-
tries (G8), and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA),
among others.
The book analyses the IP enforcement debate in three parts. Part
I presents an explanation of the evolving IP enforcement debate
and its challenges through an analysis of shifting trends in global
governance on IP, the general misunderstanding that informs the
IP enforcement discourse, the challenges posed by the discourse
for multiple stakeholders, and the current status of IP enforcement
standards negotiations. Chapter 1 on `The changing global gov-
ernance of intellectual property enforcement: a new challenge for
developing countries' by Viviana Muñoz Tellez discusses in brief
the relationship between intellectual property and development and
traces the historical evolution of international intellectual property
law and policy-making up to the present. The chapter finds that
the strategies pursued by developed countries and industry lobbies
today to exert pressure on developing country governments to
increase the enforcement of intellectual property rights and estab-
lish TRIPS-plus enforcement standards are not dissimilar from
those employed in the 1970s to mid-1990s to bring about ...