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Book SynopsisComplex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.
This comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and invaluable insight, chapters explore IP’s role in ending poverty and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion. Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP institutions, agreements and laws to achieve a more sustainable future.
The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development. It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners working in private law, public law, technology law, comparative law and international law.
Trade Review‘Intellectual property rights have major implications for every one of the Sustainable Development Goals. This excellent interdisciplinary volume containing top-quality contributions from established IP scholars and rising stars from Global South and North offers by far the most comprehensive and diverse coverage on a vital but hugely complex field. Essential reading for all those who care about the state of Planet Earth.’ -- Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary University of London, UK
‘A thoughtful and foundational work by seasoned scholars and development practitioners, offering wide-ranging analyses of the complex role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in economic development and human capital formation. It is a rich contribution to the global debate over the role of IP in economic, social, and cultural development, providing critical exploration of the socio-legal and policy implications of the SDGs in relation to IP norms that arguably impede welfare gains for the most vulnerable members of our global society. The volume outlines policy tools to help catalyze IPR reform and presents innovation tradeoffs that are at stake in advancing implementation of the SDGs; it presents diverse theoretical perspectives on the competing claims and demands for a global IPR system that facilitates innovation pathways supportive of human flourishing. Combining history, law, economics and political economy, the contributions in this volume collectively are analytic, informative, and compelling.’ -- Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School, US
‘Our common future depends urgently on prioritizing community well-being over destructive rent-seeking. Addressing this enormous challenge, this book dares us to re-align intellectual property’s purposes with each of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, hopefully to maximize the flourishing of the broadest array of living beings—and indeed of Earth itself.’ -- Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law, US
‘The Sustainable Development Goals have become a key framework to assess the impact of national policies and international regimes. This book fills an important gap and is unique in assessing, with original research by leading scholars, intellectual property in the context of such Goals. Not only academics but policy makers will benefit from reading this book.’ -- Carlos Correa, The South Centre, Switzerland
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: Our Future Commons xvi Christine Milne AO Introduction: ‘The people’s agenda’: a history of intellectual property and sustainable development 1 Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer 1 Intellectual property’s role in eliminating poverty: SDG 1 37 J. Janewa Osei-Tutu 2 SDG 2: Zero hunger, food and plant-related intellectual property, and access to plant genetic resources 50 S. Ali Malik 3 The tobacco endgame: intellectual property, human rights, and sustainable development 74 Matthew Rimmer 4 SDG 3b: Patent law and access to medicines 107 Emmanuel Kolawole Oke 5 Genetic patents and the Sustainable Development Goals 124 Jorge L. Contreras 6 Copyright, access to knowledge, and SDG 4 in Southern Africa 142 Desmond Oriakhogba and Lonias Ndlovu 7 Prioritising inclusion: the nexus of disability rights, Sustainable Development Goals on education, and intellectual property interests 175 Paul Harpur and Michael Ashley Stein 8 Intellectual property and gender inequality: towards sustainable development—or sustaining the status quo? 198 Carys J. Craig 9 Intellectual property’s other: a new social–natural contract for the advancement of access to clean water and sanitation 224 Jessica C. Lai 10 Renewable energy technology and intellectual property rights: global public goods 243 Felicity Deane and Chelsea Bodimeade 11 Economic growth requires idea generators 262 Sharon K. Sandeen 12 SDG 9: Innovation, intellectual property and gender equity 281 Myra Tawfik and Marcia Valiante 13 Sustainable patent governance of artificial intelligence: recalibrating the European Patent System to foster innovation (SDG 9) 299 Guido Noto La Diega, Gabriele Cifrodelli and Artha Dermawan 14 Open prosthetics: intellectual property, 3D printing, medical innovation, and sustainable development 323 Matthew Rimmer 15 Some more equal than others: critical contexts for the (false) promises of intellectual property rights 350 Bita Amani 16 Greener cities: intellectual property and data in sustainable smart cities 376 Natasha Tusikov 17 Responsible production and consumption (SDG 12) – a new emphasis for material lifespans in intellectual property rights regulation? 398 Taina Pihlajarinne 18 SDG 13 and intellectual property rights: a complex conundrum 415 Krishna Ravi Srinivas 19 SDG 14, ocean sustainability and transfer of marine technology: the role of UNCLOS and international intellectual property law 438 Md Mahatab Uddin and Md Saiful Karim 20 Epistemic injustice: intellectual property, biodiversity and traditional knowledge 458 Daniel F. Robinson, Miri (Margaret) Raven and Simon Lumsden 21 The role of the World Intellectual Property Organization in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda 481 Faith O. Majekolagbe 22 Branding as a tool to promote geographical indication exports and sustainable development in Africa 499 Titilayo Adebola 23 Access to science, technology, and innovation: intellectual property, human rights, and sustainable development 522 Caroline B. Ncube 24 Intellectual property, foreign investment and sustainable development 537 Peter K. Yu 25 The COVID-19 crisis: intellectual property and sustainable development during the pandemic 559 Muhammad Zaheer Abbas Conclusion: ‘Blueprints for a better world’: the future of intellectual property and sustainable development 582 Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer Coda: Blue sky solutions: a transformative vision for the 2030 Agenda 611 Bita Amani, Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer
