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ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap 2020

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ISBN : 978-92-842-0581-3

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Intellectual property (IP) has earned the reputation of being a particularly fast-evolving area of law. The three years since the 2017 edition of the ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap have only reinforced this trait, due to IP’s intimate connection to technological progress and the information society.

While the importance of IP assets to businesses is increasingly recognized, the interaction between business and government on its regulation remains an unresolved question. The complexity of IP regulation and its ubiquity across all areas of economic activity can often hide its primary policy goals: innovation and creativity. Business has an important role to play in helping governments understand the nature of this relationship, and in highlighting the positive spillover effects of this relationship for society at large. Innovation and creativity are targeted by IP, but they are issues with broader societal implications, making IP a crucial conversation for a larger audience beyond the legal and scientific community.

Innovation and creativity are also central to all policies on sustainable development and the fight against climate change. This edition is published five years into the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and four years after the 2016 Paris Agreement, and it calls for the recognition of the global IP framework as a key instrument to achieve sustainable development. Likewise, this edition addresses IP issues in the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as the IP framework is crucial for effective technology transfer and driving innovation that is also consistent with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 13 on climate change.

At the time of this edition’s publication, the Covid-19 pandemic is reshaping nearly every policy discussion and severely impacting lives and livelihoods globally. Much of the content of this roadmap gained new relevance in the context of this crisis. The management and the valuation of IP assets, particularly those owned by SMEs, will be affected by the fallout of the pandemic. The current crisis has fostered multistakeholder conversations about innovation in healthcare, technology transfer, and the fight against piracy and counterfeiting. Furthermore, the societal transformations linked to the increased use of digital technologies have drastically accelerated, breathing new life into existing discussions about IP rights in the digital world. IP will undoubtedly be a driving force in the Covid-19 recovery, with both business and policymakers partnering to develop the measures that will guide that recovery.

The 2020 edition of the ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap provides an overview of these and many other IP polic issues. Major modifications were made to the sections on patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and biological diversity. The transversal issue of artificial intelligence was included in the sections on patents, copyrights, and information products and data. Major updates were also made to the sections on domain names and counterfeiting and piracy, in response to developments that impact businesses’ use of the existing framework of IP rights.

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