...Dmytro Skrynka Purpose The European Commission suggested in 2014 a differential approach to negotiating intellectual property rights (IPR) clauses in bilateral trade agreements, whereby least developed and poorer developing states were to be offered less burdensome obligations in the sphere of IPR...

...Caroline B. Ncube Purpose This paper aims to explore the contours of the future intellectual property (IP) protocol of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. Design/methodology/approach This paper frames the IP protocol within the architecture of the AfCFTA Agreement...

...Lekha Laxman; Abdul Haseeb Ansari Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the interface between the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to determine measures available to the global community to resolve...

...Mohammed El Said Purpose Although a large number of Arab countries are members of the World Trade Organisation and the Agreement on Trade‐Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, most of these countries were unable to structure a national intellectual property protection regime which takes...

... of a domain name into the DNS, the domain name has effectively become usable as an internet identifier. Moe Alramahi can be contacted at: m.alramahi@rgu.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Property rights Intellectual property Internet Communication technologies...