Policy Options on Intellectual Property Rights, China Regional Study
Abstract
The Chinese government's inability to enforce international laws on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a growing concern for United States (US) policy makers. Our government's policy on IPR with respect to China must be modified to ensure our national strategy objective of growing free and fair intentional trade is achieved without undue harm to either the Chinese or US economies. After a brief overview of the relevant background, three policy options are presented and analyzed leading to a recommended policy called Hard industry Enlightenment. Intellectual property refers to the creations of the human mind. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are the rights given to individuals over those creations. Those rights are typically defined into two main areas: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. The concept of IPR is a strictly a modern product of European thought which began to coalesce during the 18th century. As the industrial revolution created the need to protect this new form of wealth generation, especially from one's economic rivals, the European nation states began to enter into an evolving series of IPR treaties starting in 1870. That evolution has culminated in the current World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. TRIPS is the standard by which all WTO countries define, enforce, and resolve disputes on IPR.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA422083
Entities
People
- Michael Falvey
Organizations
- Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy