Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change

List of figures; Foreword Carlos Correa; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of treaties, declarations, resolutions and others; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Transfer of ESTs: 2. Concepts and context: IPRs, innovation and transfer of ESTs; 3. International legal framework governing IPRs, innovation and transfer of technologies, including ESTs; 4. The effects of minimum IPR standards shaped by TRIPS on innovation and transfer of ESTs; Part II. Interpreting the TRIPS Agreement for Facilitating Innovation and Transfer of ESTs: 5. Rules governing treaty interpretation and the elements against which the TRIPS agreement should be interpreted; 6. Interpreting patent-related flexibilities in the TRIPS agreement for facilitating innovation and transfer of ESTs; 7. Interpreting competition-related flexibilities in the TRIPS agreement for facilitating innovation and transfer of ESTs; 8. Conclusions and recommendations; Bibliography; Index.