Intellectual Property & Free Trade Agreements

Dr Christopher Heath is section head for Asia and the Commonwealth at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich. Anselm Kamperman Sanders is Professor in European and International Intellectual Property Law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

• Part I General IssuesChapter 1. The Development Agenda for Intellectual PropertyANSELM KAMPERMAN SANDERSChapter 2. TRIPS-Plus Rules under Free Trade AgreementsJAKKRIT KUANPOTHPart II Law and Policy of Multilateral v Bilateral AgreementsChapter 3. The Changing Landscape of International Intellectual PropertyDANIEL J GERVAISChapter 4. TRIPS and FTAs: A World of Preferential or Detrimental Relations?ROGER KAMPFChapter 5. The Most-Favoured Nation Treatment and Intellectual Property RightsCHRISTOPHER HEATHPart III FTAs and PatentsChapter 6. Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals—Doha versus Free Trade AgreementsNG-LOY WEE LOON Chapter 7. Free Trade Agreements, UPOV and Plant Varieties MARISTELA BASSO & EDSON BEAS RODRIGUES JRPart IV FTAs and CopyrightsChapter 8. Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade AgreementsANDREW CHRISTIE, SOPHIE WALLER & KIMBERLEE WEATHERALL Chapter 9. Copyright and Free Trade—A Korean PerspectiveBYUNG-IL KIMPart V FTAs and AntitrustChapter 10. International Antitrust and Intellectual PropertyANDREAS HEINEMANN

...a timely, comprehensive and important contribution to international IP research and scholarship...This book not only addresses various specific problems raised by FTA IP rules, but tackles important systemic issues. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan IIC Review Issue 8/2009