It’s unavoidably international
Okediji 3, William L. Prosser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School. (Ruth L., Summer 2003, SYMPOSIUM:THE NEXUS SYMPOSIUM:AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUM ON THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL PATENT & TRADE AGREEMENTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV & AIDS:ARTICLE:PUBLIC WELFARE AND THE ROLE OF THE WTO: RECONSIDERING THE TRIPS AGREEMENT, 17 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 819, 875-876. Lexis accessed online via KU libraries)
Undoubtedly, however, intellectual property law is unavoidably "international." Scholars increasingly are turning to texts of international treaties to assess the validity of domestic initiatives and scholarly proposals for intellectual property policy. 173 Put more starkly, recent [*876] legislative activity 174 and government proposals evaluating domestic law 175 demonstrate that there is less and less that is "domestic" about domestic intellectual property law.