Intellectual Regimes and World Trade

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This paper defines intellectual regimes as principles that guide behavior in a particular area through norms, rules, and procedures. Regimes involving trade include the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). This paper looks at these two entities and how their existence and policies dictate and influence international trade.

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"The world is now that of global markets, international trade, and fuzzy borders. Intellectual property, once easy to enforce because it remained within borders, now is much more difficult, especially with the introduction of the Internet. "The reduction of trade barriers and improvements in the transparency of trade policies must now reach beyond border trade measures to national product regulations and standards, because it is these differences that distort competition in world markets" (Ryan 197). When countries have unequal variations in their levels of property protection, the intellectual property market becomes tangled and very expensive. We cannot, however, demand minimum standards across the board on every type of intellectual property, nor can we demand them of all nations for there is nothing more sovereign than the state; there would be no one to enforce such requirements. Governmental organizations now exist to try to alleviate these problems through diplomacy and multilateral agreements. Enforceability is still a problem since each nation's "variations in level of wealth, economic structure, technological capacity, governmental form, and cultural tradition" all affect the interests and goals of the state (191). Now more than ever in this global community, there is a demand for an international regime in intellectual property, caused by the variations in protection."

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