At the U.N. , A Mounting War on Patents

Publication Date: October 1982

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Roger A. Brooks

Research Area: Law and ethics

Keywords: International organizations

Type: Report

Abstract:

At a conference in Geneva, beginning this week, the globe's developing nations, led by the so-called Group of 77, and until now supported by several West European states, are preparing to propose far-reaching and drastic changes to what is known as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. These changes would threaten the technological vitality of the U.S. and other industrialized nations. More important, however, the changes would endanger the economic vitality of the very developing states which are challenging established patent laws and customs.