Analysis on the role of U.S. multinational corporations' pressure activities for inclusion of TRIPs agenda in GATT Uruguay Round

作为研究的结果，以下事实是新发现的。知识产权委员会的核心成员，即辉瑞公司和IBM公司，在成立知识产权委员会之前已经达成共识，即知识产权问题是与贸易有关的问题，因此应列入关贸总协定的议程。他们通过美国国际商务委员会向美国私营部门传播这一理念，通过贸易谈判咨询委员会向美国政府（特别是美国贸易代表办公室）传播这一理念，通过经济合作与发展组织工商咨询委员会和美日工商理事会向欧洲和日本私营部门传播这一理念。IPC通过由受IPC影响的美国贸易代表（USTR）参加的QUAD和“知识产权之友”会议，以及由IPC、UNICE和KEIDANREN组成的三方压力小组，使上述想法在欧洲和日本政府之间达成共识。

As results of the research, the following facts are newly found.1.Core members of the Intellectual Property Committee (IPC), i.e., Pfizer and IBM, had made it consensual knowledge, before they formed IPC, that problem of intellectual property rights is trade-related issue and is therefore to be GATT agenda. They disseminated this idea among U.S. private sectors through U.S. Council for International Business, among U.S. government (especially USTR) through Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, and among private sectors in Europe and Japan through Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD and U.S. -Japan Business Council.2.IPC made the above-mentioned idea consensual among governments of Europe and Japan through meetings of QUAD and "Friends of Intellectual Property" which were attended by USTR (that had been influenced by IPC), and through trilateral pressure group which were consisted of IPC, UNICE, and KEIDANREN.