The TRIPs Agreement Without a Competition Agreement?

Scrutinized: The TRIPS Agreement and Public Health

The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 1994 seeks to implement a uniform set of intellectual property protection across member nations to provide greater stability in international economic relations. Critics argue that the TRIPS agreement provides unnecessarily strong protection of intellectual property rights which ...

Unfair competition under the TRIPS agreement: protection of data submitted for the registration of pharmaceuticals.

Secure Computation without Agreement

It has recently been shown that executions of authenticated Byzantine Agreement protocols in which more than a third of the parties are corrupted, cannot be composed concurrently, in parallel, or even sequentially (where the latter is true for deterministic protocols). This result puts into question any usage of authenticated Byzantine agreement in a setting where many executions take place. In...

Coordination Without Prior Agreement

Assuming that there is an a priori agreement between processes on the names of shared memory locations, as done in almost all the publications on shared memory algorithms, is tantamount to assuming that agreement has already been solved at the lower-level. From a theoretical point of view, it is intriguing to €gure out how coordination can be achieved without relying on such lower-level agreeme...

Intersubjectivity Without Agreement

In this paper, there is an attempt to construct the notion of interstijectivity as a process of a coorakztion of participants’ contributions in joint activity. This notion incorporates the dynamics of bothagreement anddisagreement. Iargue thata traditionaldejbitionof intersubjectivityasastate of overlap of individual unakstandings overemphasizes agreement and&-emphasizes disagreement among the ...