Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization

Edited by Sam Ricketson, Emeritus Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents:Introduction: 50 years of the World Intellectual Property OrganizationSam Ricketson1. The foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization: what came beforeGillian Davies and Sam Ricketson2. The Role of WIPO as an International OrganizationAlison Duxbury3. WIPO: a brief institutional history and overviewGillian Davies and Sam Ricketson4. WIPO: a view from inside and outside the tentDr. Mihály Ficsor5. Copyright and related rights: WIPO’s role in formulating international norms in this areaSam Ricketson and Tanya Aplin6. WIPO’s Role in Procedural and Substantive Patent Law HarmonizationRochelle Dreyfuss and Jerome Reichman7. Non-Conventional Marks and the Obstacle of Functionality – WIPO’s Role in Fleshing Out the Telle Quelle RuleGraeme Dinwoodie and Annette Kur8. Making a Place for Place-Based IP: WIPO and Geographical IndicationsDev Gangjee9. Protection of Industrial Designs: a Twenty first Century Challenge for WIPO Antoon Quaedvlieg10. WIPO, Development Cooperation and the Development AgendaMichael Blakeney11. Education and Training, Technical Assistance ProgramsRaquel Xalabarder12. The Relationship between WIPO and the WTODaniel Gervais13. Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural ExpressionsSilke von Lewinski14. WIPO and IP Dispute ResolutionAndrew F. Christie15. WIPO’s Role in Collating and Publishing Data and Statistics, and in Economic AnalysisDavid Lindsay16. Muddling Through Successfully: financing and governing WIPOIan Heath17. WIPO and Treaty InterpretationSusy Frankel18. Caught in the Middle: WIPO and Emerging EconomiesPeter K Yu19. ‘Nothing for us, without us’: growth and diversity in observers' participation in WIPO.Antony Taubman20. Modernizing Copyright and Saving the Planet? Speculations on WIPO’s Future RoleRebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall, Jane C Ginsburg and Jukka Liedes21. WIPO – appraising the first 50 yearsSam RicketsonIndex