To enforce or not to enforce? Judicialization, venue shopping, and global regulatory harmonization


De Bièvre, Dirk ; Poletti, Arlo ; Thomann, Lars



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12017
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2014
The title of a journal, publication series: Regulation & Governance
Volume: 8
Issue number: 3
Page range: 269 - 286
Place of publication: Richmond, Vic.
Publishing house: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 1748-5983 , 1748-5991
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department B
Subject: 320 Political science
Abstract: The regulation of intellectual property rights takes place in a range of international venues. This proliferation of international venues greatly enhances the potential for venue shopping. We argue that different levels of domestic regulation and differing degrees of judicialization account for actors' preferences over institutional venues. We take into consideration two scenarios. Conceiving of judicialization as the delegation of adjudication to an independent third party and the enforcement through multilaterally authorized sanctions, we show that: (i) upward regulatory harmonization leads actors preferring weak regulatory intellectual property rights standards to strive for venues with low degrees of judicialization, whereas those favoring stringent intellectual property rights protection prefer highly judicialized venues; and (ii) downward harmonization leads to the opposite constellation of institutional preferences. We show how these expectations hold by way of in-depth case studies of two instances of global intellectual property rights regulation: the regulation of plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights for medicines.




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