Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for DevelopmentIn recent years, Intellectual Property Rights both in the form of patents and copyrights have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement. Moreover, for the first time in history, the IPR regime has become increasingly uniform at international level by means of the TRIPS agreement, irrespectively of the degrees of development of the various countries. This volume, first, addresses from