Intellectual Property Law in South East Asia

Edited by Christoph Antons, Professor of Law, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Australia and Michael Blakeney, Winthrop Professor of Law, UWA Law School, University of Western Australia

• Contents:1 Intellectual property, creativity and innovation in ASEAN 1Christoph Antons and Michael BlakeneyPART I RECENT IP DEVELOPMENTS ININDIVIDUAL ASEAN COUNTRIES2 Intellectual property law in Singapore 18Ng-Loy Wee Loon3 Intellectual property developments in Malaysia 33Lim Heng Gee4 The state of intellectual property protection in thePhilippines: What lies ahead? 79Ferdinand M. Negre and Jonathan Q. Perez5 Brunei Darussalam: Building an intellectual propertysystem for a knowledge and innovation economy 127Gabriel Garcia6 Intellectual property rights in South East Asian leastdeveloped countries: The cases of Cambodia, the LaoPeople’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar 156Gabriel GarciaPART II ASEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYDEVELOPMENTS AND THE WIDER REGION7 Provisions on intellectual property in ASEAN free tradeagreements: Issues and implications in policy and implementation 216Thitapha Wattanapruttipaisan8 The incremental development of the ASEAN–Chinastrategic partnership for intellectual property 266Peter K. YuPART III COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPECIFICINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN ASEAN9 The battle against digital copyright infringements in ASEAN 296Hannah Yee-Fen Lim10 Intellectual property, farmers’ rights and agriculture in theASEAN countries 317Christoph Antons and Michael Blakeney11 Enforcement of IPRs in ASEAN 357Michael Blakeney12 Pharmaceutical patent laws in South East Asian countries 377Christopher ArupIndex