Intellectual Property Committee

The Intellectual Property Committee was a coalition of thirteen US corporations "dedicated to the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement on intellectual property in the current GATT round of multilateral trade negotiations".[1] The coalition was formed in March 1986 by Bristol-Myers, DuPont, FMC Corporation, General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Monsanto, Pfizer, Rockwell International and Warner Communications.

Members changed throughout 1986 to 1996. By 1994, CBS, DuPont and General Motors quit, and others like Digital Equipment Corporation, Procter & Gamble, and Time Warner had joined.[2]

The agreement on intellectual property which IPC was dedicated to finally arrived in 1994 as the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) approved by the World Trade Organization at the end of the Uruguay Round.

See also

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
• International Intellectual Property Alliance

References

1. Edmund Pratt, "Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade", speech to US Council for International Business - according to (Drahos and Braithwaite 2002)
2. Sell, Susan K. (2003), Private Power, Public Law, Cambridge University Press, p. 96, Throughout the years 1986–1996, the IPC's membership fluctuated from eleven to four-teen corporations. In 1994, CBS, Du Pont, and General Motors no longer participated, but Digital Equipment Corporation, FMC, Procter & Gamble, Rockwell International and Time Warner did.