Evolving Relationship between Law, Offshoring of Professional Services, Intellectual Property, and International Organizations

Abstract:     
This paper covers four issues. First, it examines evolving international conventions to determine whether countries, especially developed countries, can take any steps to inhibit offshoring with the objective of protecting jobs in their respective countries. Second, it looks at statistics from independent sources to see if outsourcing exceeds insourcing, or vice versa, in the case of the US. Third, it looks at trends in outsourcing in the legal arena. Fourth, it looks at the intellectual property aspects of outsourcing and presents a long-term vision on how this ticklish issue is likely to be addressed in the long-term.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 25

Keywords: Outsourcing, offshoring, legal aspects of outsourcing, intellectual property, 24-Hour Knowledge Factory, global development teams, insourcing, net economic benefits, national policy, international conventions, World Trade Organization (WTO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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