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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyA Story
The date is fall of the year 2000
The setting is a Moscow street corner
A vendor is selling his goods
• Tony Jones • Karla Lawson • Kate Linton • Roger Panetta •
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyOctober 21, 2002Group Members
Tony Jones
Karla Lawson
Kate Linton
Roger Panetta
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAgenda
China and the WTO Accession ProcessIP: Agreements, Monitoring & EnforcementIntellectual Property and ChinaProblemsPublic Policy ProposalsConclusion, Questions and Answers
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyWhy China Matters in Trade
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyWhy China Matters in Trade
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyChina and the WTO Accession Process
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1986: China applies for GATT admission 1987: Working Party formed3 Aspects of WTO Accession15 years of negotiations2001: WTO Membership in December Agreement covers 8 broad areas
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyChina and the WTO Accession Process
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China’s WTO agreement (source: GAO)
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyIP: Agreements, Monitoring & Enforcement
TRIPS and the WTOTRIPS CouncilSpecial 301 and the USTRSection 306 and the USTRSection 337 and the ITCWIPO
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertySome of China’s WTO IP Rights Commitments
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyWhy IP Matters
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Single largest sector of the U.S. economyCopyright industries create jobs at 3 times the normal rateThreatens trading environment(Bilateral and Multilateral)
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyIP Violations in China: The Scope of the Problem
Counterfeiting and PiracyLoss of BusinessProduct PricingProduct Production Hazards
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyThe Financial Cost of Software Piracy
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Source: 2002 BSA Global Piracy Software Study
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyThe Financial Cost of Software Piracy
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Source: 2002 BSA Global Piracy Software Study
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertySoftware Piracy Offenders
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Source: 2002 BSA Global Piracy Software Study
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyChina, Asia and Piracy
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Source: 2002 BSA Global Piracy Software Study
China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyState Participation in Piracy:
Adding Insult to Injury
State is substantial participant in computer software, videos, CDs, clothes, watches, chemicals and drug based pirates
(Largest consumer of pirated business software are government offices)
Chemical Abstracts Journal & subscriptionsChinese crackdown met with skepticism
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyWhy does the problem persist?
Local ProtectionismElimination of millions of needed jobsBrand name competitionNeed for stricter enforcement
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyChina: Positive Developments in IP Enforcement
What is being done to remedy the problem
Amended patent, trademark and copyright laws in 2001Promotion of Domestic GrowthFocus on IP EnforcementCoalitions
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyPublic Policy Proposals
Review MechanismsDSU ProceduresTRIPs Exemptions for Developing CountriesOther Trade Law Challenges
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyUneasy Compromise: IP Violations Outweighed
by Promise of the MarketMicrosoft: Chinese legal system inefficientMicrosoft shares IP: competitive reasonsMultinationals sharing: Matsushita, Intel, Siemens and AlcatelHuawei Technologies: products look & work like Cisco – Cisco is not complainingWith total cost of a engineer about $15,000 & Chinese companies creating low cost knockoffs of high-tech products, the compromise is an uneasy one
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyConclusion and a Question for the Class
How do you balance the uneasy compromise: IP Protections vs. the Promise of the Market?Questions and Answers
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAppendix I
USTR’s CHINA'S ACCESSION TO THE WTO (Prof Malawer's webpage)http://www.ustr.gov/regions/china-hk-mongolia-taiwan/accession.shtml
USTR’s Intellectual Property (Prof Malawer's webpage)http://www.ustr.gov/sectors/intellectual.shtml
China's accession to WTO (University of Washington Prof)http://faculty.washington.edu/karyiu/WTO/links.htm
China’s WTO Accession Package? http://www.mac.doc.gov/China/WTOAccessionPackage.htm
Intellectual Property Issues and Chinahttp://internationalecon.com/currentissues/china/china-ipr.html
China Intellectual Property Laws & Rightshttp://www.china-laws-online.com/intellectual-property-rights/index.htm
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAppendix II
Report on WTO's China Accessionhttp://www.cibertele.com/nuevo/omc/Report%20on%20WTO%20China%20accession.pdf
China enters WTO an overview of the changeshttp://www.freshfields.com/places/asia/publications/pdfs/2744.pdf
WTO China May 2002http://www.deloitte.ca/en/pubs/ExpressChina/WTO_09.pdf
Brookings Institute Issues: WTO's China Accessionhttp://www.brook.edu/views/testimony/lardy/20010509.htm
USTR Special Report 2002http://www.ustr.gov/reports/2002/special301-306.htm
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAppendix III
China’s WTO Accession – On the Fast Track: Financial Serviceshttp://www.tdctrade.com/econforum/tdc/020301.htm
China: Intellectual Property Rightshttp://www.users.qwest.net/~ryanandkari/IPR.htm
China: Intellectual Property Rightshttp://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/china/mrr/mark0307.html
Laws revised to meet promiseshttp://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-09-19/86860.html
China has joined the WTO – Are you prepared? Do you have an ntellectual property strategy in China?http://www.dorseylaw.com/updates/IP/IPVol2Num1.asp
U.S. Sees Rising Intellectual Property Theft in Chinahttp://www.uspolicy.be/Issues/WTO/rogan.042302.htm
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAppendix IV
M. Simensky, L. Bryer, N. Wilkof, Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace, (1999)
Business Week, High Tech in China (October 28, 2002)
Washington Post, Piracy Still Runs Rampant in China (March 27, 1998)
Washington Post, Piracy in China, No Mickey Mouse Issue (February 15, 1996)
World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, China and Japan to Tackle Product Piracy, www.wfsgi.org.
Business Software Alliance, Seventh Annual BSA Global Software Piracy Study (June 2002), http://www.bsa.org/sweeps
USTR, 2002 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers – China, www.ustr.gov/reports/nte/2002/index.htm
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China’s WTO Accession: Intellectual PropertyAppendix: GAO Reports
World Trade Organization: Selected U.S. Company Views about China's Membership. GAO-02-1056, September 23, 2002 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d021056.pdf
World Trade Organization: Analysis of China's Commitments to Other Members. GAO-03-4, October 3, 2002http://www.gao.gov/new.items/
World Trade Organization: Observations on China's Rule of Law Reforms. GAO-02-812T, June 6, 2002 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02812t.pdf
China Trade: WTO Membership and Most-Favored-Nation Status. T-NSIAD-98-209, June 17, 1998 http://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/ns98209t.pdf
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