It is because of this lack of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between two countries, or
through multilateral negotiations.
Not exact matches
The idea was that it is easier to reach ambitious agreements
through multilateral trade
negotiations dealing with many issues at once than
through piecemeal bilateral agreements.
If Judge Robart had determined that
multilateral patent pool
negotiations are the only or always the best way to arrive at FRAND rates, an appeals court might have disagreed and might have found that if a company elects not to participate in a pool, it should still be free to seek higher royalties
through bilateral
negotiations.