The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement: Promoting Sustainable Development: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law, cartea 17

Aimed at students, scholars, legal professionals and policy-makers dedicated to intellectual property issues, this book aims to solve potential conflicts between intellectual property rights, human rights and free competition through the adoption of legislative and judicial exceptions to intellectual property rights.

Part I. Determining the Normative Meaning of the General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement: 1. The customary rules of treaty interpretation and the elements in light of which the general exception clauses of TRIPS shall be interpreted; 2. Determining the normative meaning of arts. 17, 26(2) and 30 of the TRIPS Agreement; 3. Determining the normative meaning of arts. 13 of the TRIPS Agreement and 9(2) of the Berne Convention; Part II. Putting to the Test the Capacity of the General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement to Promote the Pillars of Sustainable Development: 4. Patents and the R&D and the Genetic Diagnostic Test Exceptions; 5. Trademarks and the Parody and Criticism Exception; 6. Industrial designs and the Repair Exception; 7. Copyright and the Educational Exception for Underprivileged Students and Researchers.