... not to mention the United States of America and Western European countries during their industrial revolutions, could not have achieved their current levels of technological sophistication and economic growth if strong IPR regimes had been forced on them during the early stage of their industrialization. INTRODUCTION Since the mid-twentieth century, many developing nations have been engaged in intense efforts to import the developed technologies of the industrialized countries and bridge the large economic gap that exists between the developed and developing worlds. The rationale behind this approach is that the studying of the imported technology will be the best means of promoting domestic research and development, which in turn is the core of a developing country's ability to generate its own technology and help it to bridge the economic chasm between itself and the developed world. The protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has increasingly become a vital issue in multilateral trade ...

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