Author(s)

Yaxin He ¹, Ruijia Yan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ People's Public Security University of China, Beijing, 100038, China

Corresponding Author

Yaxin He

ABSTRACT

In the context of the restructuring of global value chains, regional trade agreements have become a key area for the reshaping of international economic and trade rules, and the enforcement of intellectual property rights is an important issue. Taking CPTPP, USMCA and RCEP as the research objects, this paper uses a mixture of text analysis, econometric models and case studies to analyze the differentiated characteristics and institutional roots of IP enforcement provisions in agreements. The results show that the enforcement intensity of the three agreements is characterized by a gradient of "USMCA ≥ CPTPP> RCEP", and the institutional roots include differences in economic power structure, conflict between legal traditions and development rights game. To this end, a "dynamic reciprocity" model and a multi-level coordination framework are constructed, and the effectiveness of the coordination path is verified through cases such as USMCA drug data protection disputes. Finally, it puts forward policy recommendations for China on the implementation of RCEP, CPTPP docking, multilateral rule-building, and intellectual property cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, emphasizing the need to build a "development-oriented" coordination mechanism to balance innovation protection and public welfare, while paying attention to the impact of emerging issues such as digital service tax and copyright ownership of AI-generated products on IP enforcement.

KEYWORDS

Regional trade agreements; intellectual property enforcement provisions; differentiation; coordination pathways; CPTPP; USMCA; RCEP

CITE THIS PAPER

Yaxin He, Ruijia Yan. The Differentiation and Coordination Pathways of Intellectual Property Enforcement Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements—A Comparative Study Based on CPTPP, USMCA, and RCEP. Science of Law Journal (2025) Vol. 4: 67-76. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2025.040110.

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