CAFTA-DR, European Free Trade Agreements and the Industrial Property System in Central America

Fabian Böttger is a German-qualified attorney-at-law with many years of practical experience dealing with questions of intellectual property especially in the life sciences industry. He worked for several years as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation (Munich). Prior to this, he studied law in Tübingen and Munich, where he passed both his bar exams, and obtained his LL.M. and a Certificate in Latin American studies at the University of Texas / Austin.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Legal and Institutional Framework of IP Protection in Central America.- 3. Inventions, Plant Varieties and Test Data.- 4. Distinctive Signs.- 5. Designs, Topographies and Unfair Competition.- 6. Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge.- 7. Enforcement.- 8. Evaluation and Recommendations.