Contemporary Challenges to Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: Looking Beyond the Laws (Nigeria as a Case Study)

Author(s):  
Ifeoluwa A. Olubiyi ◽  
Uzoamaka A. Emerole ◽  
Ayokunle F. Adetula
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Celia Castro ◽  
Maria Beatriz Amorim Bohrer

TRIPS as it stands is against the interests of developing countries, and needsreform. In developing their own patent law, developing countries need to recognizethat there is now near consensus among informed observers that patentlaw and practice have, in some cases, overshot, and need to be reformed. Thatis the burden of the recent NAS/NRC report on “A Patent System for the 21stCentury.


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