Two Decades of TRIPS in China

Authors

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.

First Page

89

Last Page

108

Num Pages

20

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editor

Henry Gao, Damian Raess, & Ka Zeng

Book Title

China and the WTO: A Twenty-Year Assessment

Recommended Citation

Peter K. Yu, Two Decades of TRIPS in China, in China and the WTO: A Twenty-Year Assessment 89 (Henry Gao, Damian Raess, & Ka Zeng eds., 2023).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1967

File Type

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