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Summary:

This book focuses on a new generation of bilateral and regional agreements negotiated by the EU with developing countries and which include intellectual property (IP) provisions setting standards exceeding those of the TRIPS Agreement. The contributions critically analyse the IP standards found in these agreements; their potential for reforming the international IP system; the implications for the multilateral IP system and other areas of international law such as human rights; and the often neglected topic of implementing the IP obligations in these agreements.

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Intellectual Property Protection in Economic Partnership- and Free Trade Agreements. Current Issues in International Intellectual Property Norm-Making / Daniel Gervais
• Intellectual Property Chapters in Free Trade Agreements: Their Significance and Systemic Implications / Pedro Roffe
• Is TRIPS a Balanced Agreement from the Perspective of Recent Free Trade Agreements? / Jayashree Watal
• Part II. Going Beyond Trips: Impact on International Law and Policy. Impact of TRIPS-Plus Obligations in Economic Partnership- and Free Trade Agreements on International IP Law / Marco M. Aleman
• The Impact of the Economic Partnership Agreements on WTO Law / Carlos Correa
• EU Economic Partnership Agreements and International Human Rights / Peter K. Yu
• IP Protection in EU Free Trade Agreements vis-à-vis IP Negotiations in the WTO / Souheir Nadde-Phlix
• Part III. Emerging Elements for Reforming the International IP System? Trade Costs and Shadow Benefits: EU Economic Partnership Agreements as Models for Progressive Development of International IP Law / Frederick M. Abbott
• Assessing the Development Promise of IP Provisions in EU Economic Partnership Agreements / Keith E. Maskus
• IP Enforcement Provisions in EU Economic Partnership Agreements / Thomas Jaeger
• Part IV. Implementation of IP Provisions in EU Trade Agreements. Economic Partnership Agreements and EU Trade Policy: Objectives, Competences, and Implementation / Christian Pitschas
• Constitutional Functions of the EU's Intellectual Property Treaties / Tuomas Mylly
• Intellectual Property and Implementation of Recent Bilateral Trade Agreements in the EU / Josef Drexl
• Implementation Issues Arising from Intellectual Property Chapters Contained in Trade Agreements Between the EU and Developing Countries / Xavier Seuba.

Contributors:

Drexl, Josef , editor

Grosse Ruse-Khan, Henning, 1974- , editor

Nadde-Phlix, Souheir , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Related Series:

MPI studies on intellectual property and competition law; v. 20

Subjects:

Intellectual property — European Union countries

Free trade — European Union countries

European Union countries — Economic policy

European Economic Community countries — Economic policy

Economic policy

Free trade

Intellectual property

European Union countries

Europe

European Economic Community countries

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) : 1 illustration.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KJE2636 .E935 2014eb

ISBNs:

9783642390975 (electronic bk.)
3642390978 (electronic bk.)
1306542510
9781306542517
364239096X
9783642390968
9783642390968 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-642-39097-5
[Unknown Type]: 10.1007/978-3-642-39

OCLC Numbers:

866901785