DOCUMENTO: Dialéctica de los pactos de propiedad intelectual en los tratados de libre comercio y de biodiversidad

Abstract

The globalized and expanded imposition of the intellectual property stipulations has been possible thanks to the signature of different free trade agreements, multilateral, bilateral and plurilateral. Formerly, the countries enjoyed the principle of territoriality to define such stipulations, among which and widely extended, any type of intellectual property on life forms was not accepted. Here we will analyze some aspects of the chapters of intellectual property included in several multilateral commercial pacts and the general content of another two related, this time, to the protection and sustainable use of the wild and domesticated biodiversity. We will examine later how these two pacts are afterwards submitted to the commercial ones due to the exploitation of the biological wealth must observe intellectual property rules. Finally, we will review the strategies used by some countries to globally impose those rules combining the use of different treaties, multilateral, bilateral and plurilateral.