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International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Fifth Edition

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  • Frederick M. Abbott
  • Thomas Cottier
  • Francis Gurry
  • Ryan B. Abbott
  • Mira Burri
  • Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
  • Maegan McCann
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980 pages
Publication Date
2024-02-01
Edition
Fifth Edition
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International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive analysis of the international intellectual property system across the spectrum of intellectual property (IP) rights and interests. It introduces the institutional architecture at the multilateral, regional/plurilateral, bilateral, and national levels. For each form of IP, it addresses the legal rules and illustrative jurisprudence with a focus on major jurisdictions, as well as economic and social welfare implications. It also considers the continuously growing importance of IP in a constantly changing technological environment, currently reflected in the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its deployment in creative and inventive activities. Each of the authors has played a role in the development and implementation of the international rules, and they bring their experience to bear in introducing students to the field.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • New co-authors: Ryan B. Abbott, Mira Burri, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, and Maegan McCann, who bring additional expertise to the book
  • The latest developments in bilateral and regional agreements regulating intellectual property, including implementation of the EU Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court system and the EU intermediaries’ liability regime for copyright infringement
  • Important new judicial decisions, including the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Google v. Oracle and Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, as well as decisions from EU and U.S. courts addressing identifiers for food products (Emmental and Gruyere cheeses)
  • Developments in AI in the context of content-creation, inventions, IP-registration and enforcement, as well as support or substitute for human decision-making
  • The expanding discourse on trade secret protection and its importance for international technology transfer
  • The phenomenon of the anti-suit injunction in international patent litigation
Benefits for instructors and students:
  • An approach to the international IP system that situates the rules within the broader context of international law and the public policy objectives that governments, industry, and interest groups are seeking to achieve
  • Case law from international dispute settlement bodies, as well as from national and regional courts and administrative authorities
  • Discussion of patent, trademark, copyright, design, trade secret, and geographical indication protection, as well as plant variety protection, the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, and the role of open source and open innovation systems
  • An explanation of the European Union Unitary Patent system
  • Exploration of the increasingly important role of emerging market IP systems
  • Materials to help students understand the disputes between the United States and China involving IP, investment, and transfer of technology
  • Identification of important trends in the enforcement of IP
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About the authors
Frederick Abbott
Edward Ball Eminent Scholar / Professor of International Law
Florida State University, Tallahassee

Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law. He has served as an expert consultant for numerous international and regional organizations, governments, and nongovernmental organizations, mainly in the fields of intellectual property, public health, trade, and sustainable development. Professor Abbott is the author of many books and articles in the fields of international intellectual property rights law, public health, international law, and international economic law. Recent books include International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, 3d ed. 2015 (with T. Cottier and F. Gurry), Emerging Markets and the World Patent Order, ed. with Carlos M. Correa and Peter Drahos (2013), and Global Pharmaceutical Policy (2009) (with G. Dukes).

He is Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Health Law of the International Law Association, having served as Rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade Law from the inception of its work in 1993 to its conclusion in 2014. He is a consultant to the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, and other multilateral institutions. Professor Abbott is on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford). He regularly serves as a panelist for the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. He has served as counsel to governments in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and in national court proceedings. Prior to entering academia, Professor Abbott was a partner in a major US law firm and specialized in international business regulation and technology-related transactions. He was based in San Francisco (1977-1983) and Silicon Valley (1984-1989).

Professor Abbott is Co-Director of the Executive Course on Intellectual Property, Diplomacy, and Global Public Health for the Global Health Programme of the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and he teaches on the visiting faculty of the World Trade Institute, Berne, Switzerland. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Cottier
Professor of European and International Economic Law
University of Berne

Education University of Berne Law School

Background Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He co-directs the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence) located at the WTI. He is an associate editor of several journals. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and also currently teaches at the Europa Institut Saarbrücken, Germany, and at Wuhan University, China.

He was a member of the Swiss National Research Council from 1997 to 2004 and served on the board of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) in Rome during the same period. He served the Baker McKenzie law firm as Of Counsel from 1998 to 2005. Prof. Cottier has a long-standing involvement in GATT/WTO activities. He served on the Swiss negotiating team of the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1993, first as Chief Negotiator on dispute settlement and subsidies for Switzerland and subsequently as Chief Negotiator on TRIPs.

He held several positions in the Swiss External Economic Affairs Department and was the Deputy-Director General of the Swiss Intellectual Property Office. In addition to his conceptual work in the fields of services and intellectual property and legal counseling, he has also served as a member or chair of several GATT and WTO panels. Prof. Cottier has written and published on a wide range of trade and international law issues.

Francis Gurry
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva

Education Ph.D., University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1980 LL.M., University of Melbourne, Australia, 1976 LL.B., University of Melbourne, Australia, 1974

Background Mr. Francis Gurry was appointed Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) on October 30, 2008. Francis Gurry began his WIPO career in 1985, initially in the Development Cooperation and External Relations Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. He was instrumental in establishing the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in 1994 and subsequently in developing the highly successful Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

He served on the WIPO top management team from 1997, initially as Assistant Director General, then from 2003 as Deputy Director General with responsibility for patents and the PCT system, the Arbitration and Mediation Center, traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources.

Before joining WIPO, Francis Gurry practiced as an attorney in Australia and taught law at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds law degrees from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of numerous publications and articles on intellectual property issues in international journals. An Australian national, Francis Gurry speaks fluent English and French.

Ryan Abbott

Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, MTOM, PhD, is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, partner at Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan, LLP, and a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, Inc. He is the author of “The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law” published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press as well as the editor of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence published in 2022 by Edward Elgar. He has published widely on issues associated with life sciences and intellectual property in leading legal, medical, and scientific books and journals, and his research has been featured prominently in the popular press including in The Times of London, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and other media outlets involving time. Professor Abbott has worked as an expert for, among others, the United Kingdom Parliament, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is a licensed physician and patent attorney in the United States, and a solicitor advocate in England and Wales. Managing Intellectual Property magazine named him as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property in 2019 and again in 2021. www.ryanabbott.com.

Mira Burri

Mira Burri is Professor of International Economic and Internet Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She teaches international intellectual property, media, internet and trade law. Mira’s current research interests are in the areas of digital trade, data protection and data governance. Mira is the principal investigator of the project ‘Trade Law 4.0’ (ERC Consolidator Grant 2021–2026). She consults the European Parliament, UNESCO, ASEAN, the WEF and others on issues of digital innovation. Mira is also a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2024-02-01
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
980
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543857894
Looseleaf
9798886143720
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886144475
Subject
Intellectual Property , International Law and Foreign Relations , Patent Law , Copyright Law , Trademark Law
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