PLSC 380V Study Guide - Final Guide: Patent Troll, Most Favoured Nation, Precautionary Principle
4 May 2016
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New, nationally applicable, novelty standard- something has to already have a patent or has to be written up in scientific literature, every country has own standard of novelty. Priority- a year to register in every other country. Exception- e. u trademark and design protection: can get trademark or industrial design certificate for all 28 countries at once. 1940s: between the two wars- era of globalization shut down. Diplomats abroad to find markets and kept out with high tariffs- nation states were structure, corporations provided jobs- governments protected them in competition in terms of imports. After second world war, new world economic order- done through bretton. World bank- set up to give loans to countries and i. Mf designed to regulate currency, an ounce of gold. Gatt- general agreements on tariffs (tax on imported goods) and trade set up system whereby tariffs on industrial goods will come down over time.
