{"id":414,"date":"2016-06-20T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2016-07-06T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:18:41","slug":"4-1-1-2-term-of-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/4-trade-provisions\/4-1-intellectual-property-rights\/4-1-1-fostering-green-innovation\/4-1-1-2-term-of-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"4.1.1.2 Term of Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPs grants patent protection of 20 years from date of filing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/27-trips.pdf#page=16\" target=\"_blank\">TRIPs Article 33<\/a>), a benchmark that RTIAs may extend in their IPRs chapters. Extending this term in any way means increasing the incentives for innovation, which is good, and increasing costs and stifling derivative innovation, which is bad. Each government will need to decide for itself where it judges the balance to be appropriate, but our recommendation from the perspective of fostering green innovation is that only those countries with strong innovative capacity should seek to extend patent terms past what is provided in TRIPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPs grants patent protection of 20 years from date of filing (TRIPs Article 33), a benchmark that RTIAs may extend in their IPRs chapters. Extending this term in any way means increasing the incentives for innovation, which is good, and increasing costs and stifling derivative innovation, which is bad. Each government will need to decide<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/4-trade-provisions\/4-1-intellectual-property-rights\/4-1-1-fostering-green-innovation\/4-1-1-2-term-of-protection\/\" title=\"Read4.1.1.2 Term of Protection\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"0"},"class_list":["post-414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}