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By examining the possible intellectual property issues in the green economy in international investment law, this article has demonstrated how intellectual property disputes can still complicate the already deadlocked condition of tech transfer and constrain States’ ability to promote the green economy.
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Why is it important?
The international investment legal regime, climate change, and intellectual property rights exist in three distinct spaces with separate backgrounds and objectives. Such distinctness obfuscates the nature of IP as an incentive-driven system. To prepare for such complications, now, international legal scholars and policymakers must consider the nature of intellectual property, the sources of green tech, the characteristics of the climate crisis, as well as their implications in international investment law.
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This page is a summary of: Moving from the Brown Economy to the Green Economy: The Battle over International Intellectual Property, The Journal of World Investment & Trade, December 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22119000-12340275.
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