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。1.知识产权委员会（IPC）的核心成员，即，辉瑞公司和IBM公司在成立IPC之前已经达成共识，知识产权问题是与贸易有关的问题，因此将列入GATT议程。他们通过美国国际商业理事会在美国私营部门、美国政府和私营部门之间传播这一理念。（特别是美国贸易代表办公室）通过贸易谈判咨询委员会，并通过经合组织工商业咨询委员会和美日商务理事会在欧洲和日本的私营部门之间进行了交流。提到了欧洲和日本政府通过QUAD和“知识产权之友”会议达成的共识，美国贸易代表办公室参加了这些会议（受IPC影响的），并通过IPC、UNICE、KEIDANREN组成的三方压力组。

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.