This article analyzes the domestic drivers of regulatory state formation in India and Brazil
and its consequences for the global rules governing pharmaceutical patents. We first …

What explains variation in preferential trade agreements'(PTAs) intellectual property rights
(IPRs)? Conventional wisdom holds that PTAs include IPRs because in fear of losses from …

Pre-grant and post-grant oppositions filed in India by civil society and generic companies
have been instrumental in visibly increasing access of drugs to the public—both in terms of …

In a second image reversed-perspective on global order, economic globalization did not
level the differences between national models of capitalism as expected by many observers …

English abstract Since three decades already, we witness a proliferation of preferential trade
agreements (PTAs) as a means for international trade policy-making. PTAs not only …

Abstract English Global Value Chains (GVCs) are a key feature of today's global economy.
Countries, industries, and firms are connected worldwide through shared production …

Background and Aim: Today, one of the most important issues in the field of intellectual
property rights and economics is inventions. Some inventions, such as the invention of …