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31 Wis. Int'l L.J. 147 (2013-2014)
Moving towards a Sustainable Future: Replacing Trips with a New International Regime for Intellectual Property and Sustainable Energy Technology Transfer

handle is hein.journals/wisint31 and id is 153 raw text is: MOVING TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: REPLACING TRIPS WITH A NEW INTERNATIONAL REGIME FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER NIKHIL PRADHAN* Introduction ................................... .....148 I. Background on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy .................149 A. Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases create a range of changes to global climate that may result in devastating long-term consequences ........... .....149 B. Sustainable energy technologies can provide a solution to climate change by reducing dependence on technologies that create greenhouse gas emissions ...............151 C. General paradigms for addressing climate change issues provide a framework from which to build a solution that emphasizes sustainable energy technology transfer and development ........................... ..... 152 D. International cooperation and local-level paradigms that promote technology innovation and transfer through intellectual property are both necessary to address climate change...............................153 E. International cooperation is necessary for sustainable energy technology transfer, though divergence in the goals of various parties introduces major cooperation costs .................... .................. 156 F. Technology-push and demand-pull paradigms may both be valuable for promoting sustainable technology development and transfer ............................... 161 II. The Global Intellectual Property Regime: TRIPS and the Doha Declaration ............................. ....... 162 A. Patent Protection, Licensing, and Exhaustion under TRIPS . 162 B. Technology Transfer...........................164 * J.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2014; B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. 1 would like to thank the staff of the Wisconsin International Law Journal for their assistance and feedback, Professor Shalanda Baker of the University of San Francisco School of Law for her guidance, and my family for their support.