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Emerging Conflicts Over Intellectual Property In Recent Gatt Negotiations, Sonia Baldia
Emerging Conflicts Over Intellectual Property In Recent Gatt Negotiations, Sonia Baldia
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis describes the "intellectual property problem" and how it came to be a focus of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It addresses the concerns of the developed and the developing world regarding a reform in their intellectual protection regimes. One of the results of this thesis is that reforms that do not stem from developing countries' perceptions of their own interests and needs, and that are not articulated in keeping with broader economic and technological policies, are unlikely to result in stable and predictable rules or to be properly enforced.
Policy And Legal Aspects Of Technology Transfer From The United States To China, Yongman Zhang
Policy And Legal Aspects Of Technology Transfer From The United States To China, Yongman Zhang
LLM Theses and Essays
One of the major international transactions today is the transfer of technology between nations. Because the U.S. and China are on opposite ends of the technology spectrum, one an advanced technological nation and the other technologically backward, they make excellent trading partners of technology. China’s history of self-reliance and its modern Open Door policy to realize its Four Modernizations are reviewed. This policy of openness is the key to the modernization of China’s economy through the importing of foreign technology. Likewise, the evolution of U.S. policy toward trade with China is analyzed. The U.S. has moved from a policy of …
Model Technology Diversion Safeguard Law, Georgi Angelov
Model Technology Diversion Safeguard Law, Georgi Angelov
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis delves into the liberation of export control that resulted from the Committee for Multilateral Export Controls and its being contingent on the adoption of safeguard mechanisms. The objective of the study is to create a model technology diversion safeguard law designed specifically for Bulgaria but adaptable for other interested countries. There is an added emphasis on communication issues, stated as “critical for the successful implementation of a safeguard regime.”
Negotiation Of International Agreements: Legal And Practical Problems In The Third World Countries, Kuwayaway Stephen Kuwayaway
Negotiation Of International Agreements: Legal And Practical Problems In The Third World Countries, Kuwayaway Stephen Kuwayaway
LLM Theses and Essays
The purpose of this study was to investigate problems in negotiation of international agreements in Third World countries, to shed light on the salient features in negotiation agreements between developed and developing countries, and to propose measures to assess the situation. This study provides detailed description and techniques used in negotiating these agreements in international negotiations. The study reveals that when negotiating within unequal bargaining power, the weak party stands to lose because it enters the agreement without free will; consequently, the agreement becomes unenforceable. Three factors have been identified as being obstacles to freedom of contract, ie. The unequal …