Level Of Economic Development Under The Trips Agreement, Intellectual Property Protection

With the rise of the modern technology-based industrial revolution, people have more and more attention on whether intellectual property rights are effective in promoting economic growth or not. The answer to this question is very important because it is directly related to the benefit and policy choices in international intellectual property protection to the developed and developing countries.On this issue, economists had an in-depth study, gave us a variety of theories and policy recommendations.For the problem to the relationship between economic development and the level of intellectual property protection under the TRIPS Agreement, this article want to find some experience from other countries, it may be a reference to China. Therefore, this paper selected several countries/areas with different levels of economic development as an example to analysis the protection of intellectual property strategy and their choice. The five countries/areas are the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and India. Studies found that Britain was the first countries to implement patent protection, this policy greatly contributed to national economic development; the United States has a big benefit on intellectual property protection, so it persists in strong intellectual property protection; Korea taken an imitation to innovation development path, and gradually achieve industrial upgrading; Under the pressure from trading partners and its own industrial development, Taiwan began to strengthen the construction of intellectual property protection system;India chooses different intellectual property protection between different industries to achieve a rapid development in the pharmaceutical industry and the software industry.From the above experience in the development of economies, we can see why would these countries/areas change their intellectual property protection policies, it depended on their requirement, and the requirement is endogenous, coupled with the external pressure in the right time. It made the path of national policy options that we now see. This also explains the terms of IPR protection in China has been close with international ones, but the actual protection of intensity is very different. It is because China's industrial development is still in the imitation stage, has not generated the internal demand to strengthen intellectual property protection. But with the continuous economic development, intellectual property protection strategy of China's future will change based on internal promotion as a starting point. Now, the Chinese developed coastal areas have emerged this trend, the phenomenon verifies the previous view. In general, national intellectual property protection policies should meet their needs, developed economies generally being advocated consistency of intellectual property protection, while developing economies were in favor of differences in intellectual property protection. For China, the development stage should be weighed against domestic and foreign pressure to strengthen the protection, to find a balance between the two, in order to better respond to future challenges.