Droits de Propriété Intellectuelle et Accords Commerciaux Régionaux
Un petit article en anglais sur les droits de Propriété intellectuelle dans les accords régionaux de libre-échange :
IPR in regional trade agreements : What is hot and what is not
Any attentive observer of international trade would acknowledge that regional trade agreements (RTAs) are spreading all around the planet, mainly under the form of free trade areas (FTAs). RTAs nowadays concentrate more than 40% of global trade and on average a country is a member of six RTAs. Most of the current 300 RTAs contain very detailed provisions regarding intellectual property rights (IPR).
The logic of RTAs is indeed very favourable for the inclusion of such provisions (I) and the American example is a very telling illustration of how far IPR provisions can go (II).
