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Linking Intellectual Property Rights In Developing Countries With Research And Development, Technology Transfer, And Foreign Direct Investment Policy: A Case Study Of Egypt's Pharmaceutical Industry, Sahar Aziz Jan 2003

Linking Intellectual Property Rights In Developing Countries With Research And Development, Technology Transfer, And Foreign Direct Investment Policy: A Case Study Of Egypt's Pharmaceutical Industry, Sahar Aziz

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in order to establish a set of international rules and norms for conducting trade among nations.


Defining Terms In The Intellectual Property Protection Debate: Are The North And South Arguing Past Each Other When We Say "Property"? A Lockean, Confucian, And Islamic Comparison, Richard E. Vaughan Jan 1996

Defining Terms In The Intellectual Property Protection Debate: Are The North And South Arguing Past Each Other When We Say "Property"? A Lockean, Confucian, And Islamic Comparison, Richard E. Vaughan

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The concept of intellectual property, or ideas protected by patents, copyrights, and trademarks, has been around since at least the 13th century. However, it is only in the last decade that "piracy," or the illegal copying and selling of copywritten or patented material, has become a contentious issue in trade negotiations between the nations of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres