The recent ‘WIPO Development Agenda’ proposed by Brazil and Argentina, revived the conflict of positions between industrialized and developing countries about the benefits of patents for developing countries.
The questioning about the role of patents for the development of developing countries started gradually in the course of the fifties. At that time, some American and British economists raised doubts about the benefits deriving from the patent system, influencing certain circles in Latin America.
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Siemsen, P.D., Ahlert, I.B. (2009). Patents and Developing Countries. In: Pyrmont, W.P.z.W.u., Adelman, M.J., Brauneis, R., Drexl, J., Nack, R. (eds) Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World. MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88743-0_45
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