The Global Governance of Knowledge: Patent Offices and their Clients

Peter Drahos (Australian National University, Canberra)

The Global Governance of Knowledge: Patent Offices and their Clients
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 January 2010
Pages
368
ISBN
9780521144360

The Global Governance of Knowledge: Patent Offices and their Clients

Peter Drahos (Australian National University, Canberra)

Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world’s largest and smallest offices, Peter Drahos argues that patent offices have become part of a globally integrated private governance network, which serves the interests of multinational companies, and that the Trilateral Offices of Europe, the USA and Japan make developing country patent offices part of the network through the strategic fostering of technocratic trust. By analysing the obligations of patent offices under the patent social contract and drawing on a theory of nodal governance, the author proposes innovative approaches to patent office administration that would allow developed and developing countries to recapture the public spirit of the patent social contract.

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