Tournament: Holy Cross | Round: 2 | Opponent: L C Anderson AS | Judge: David Herrera
Reducing of international IP protection policy doesn’t actually work– US has historically pressured LDCs and DCs to increase IPR for medicines even before TRIPS existed
Sell 95 Sell, Susan K. “Intellectual Property Protection and Antitrust in the Developing World: Crisis, Coercion, and Choice.” International Organization, vol. 49, no. 2, MIT Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Cambridge University Press, International Organization Foundation, 1995, pp. 315–49, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2706974.
American policymakers learned
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of intellectual property.
Failure to comply to the US’s IP regime causes retaliation. Violators are coerced into increasing IP protections. Brazil and Mexico prove:
Sell 03 Sell, Susan K. Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
In 1987 the
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in GSP benefits
Reducing IP protections in the WTO triggers US to go wild and retaliate using 301. Even the aftermath is just a return to the US bullying LDCs into submission.