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Two Decades of TRIPS in China
Faculty Scholarship
  • Peter K. Yu
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
9-2023
ISBN
9781009291781
DOI
10.1017/9781009291804.008
Abstract

This chapter reviews China’s engagement with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the past twenty years. It begins by highlighting TRIPS-related developments in the first decade of China’s WTO membership. The chapter then discusses the country’s ‘innovative turn’ in the mid-2000s and the ramifications of its changing policy positions. This chapter continues to examine the US-China trade war, in particular the second TRIPS complaint that the United States filed against China in March 2018. It concludes with observations about the impact of the TRIPS Agreement on China, China’s impact on that agreement and how the changing Chinese intellectual property landscape has altered developing countries’ coalitional dynamics within the WTO.

Num Pages
20
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editor
Henry Gao, Damian Raess, & Ka Zeng
Book Title
China and the WTO: A Twenty-Year Assessment
File Type
PDF
Citation Information
Peter K. Yu. "Two Decades of TRIPS in China" (2023) p. 89 - 108
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_yu/358/