Analysis on the role of U.S. multinational corporations' pressure activities for inclusion of TRIPs agenda in GATT Uruguay Round
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15530104
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
International relations
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TOHYA Hiroki Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・社会科学研究科, 助教授 (80294502)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Keywords | international political economy / intellectual property rights / United States of America / multinational corporation / pressure group / GATT / TRIPs / agenda-setting |
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| Research Abstract |
As results of the research, the following facts are newly found.
1.Core members of the Intellectual Property Committee (IPC), i.e., Pfizer and IBM, had made it consensual knowledge, before they formed IPC, that problem of intellectual property rights is trade-related issue and is therefore to be GATT agenda. They disseminated this idea among U.S. private sectors through U.S. Council for International Business, among U.S. government (especially USTR) through Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, and among private sectors in Europe and Japan through Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD and U.S. -Japan Business Council.
2.IPC made the above-mentioned idea consensual among governments of Europe and Japan through meetings of QUAD and "Friends of Intellectual Property" which were attended by USTR (that had been influenced by IPC), and through trilateral pressure group which were consisted of IPC, UNICE, and KEIDANREN.
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