The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Upcycling

Péter Mezei is professor at the University of Szeged (Hungary), adjunct professor (dosentti) at the University of Turku (Finland), chief researcher at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and professor invité at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III (France). He coordinates the Comparative Intellectual Property Law LLM of the University of Szeged, and the joint IP LLM of the Technical University of Dresden and University of Szeged on the Szeged side. He focuses on comparative law, and comparative, digital, International and European copyright law. He is a member of the European Copyright Society and the Hungarian Copyright Expert Board. Heidi Härkönen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Turku Faculty of Law, Finland. She was awarded an honorary Adjunct Professorship in the field of fashion law in 2025. Her research focus is on using law as a tool to shape the fashion industry towards holistic fairness and sustainability. Prior to her law studies, she studied fashion design. She is an active non-commercial fashion designer and an upcycler. She has received numerous awards and nominations for her fashion law research, for example: distinguished early-career researcher award 2022, Finland's nomination for the most promising young Nordic private law scholar 2024.

• Part I. Doctrine and Policy of Upcycling: 1. A primer to intellectual property law and upcycling Péter Mezei and Heidi Härkönen; 2. Is there a fundamental right to upcycling? An analytical approach Daniël Jongsma; Part II. Upcycling in Various Fields of IP Law: 3. Upcycling, sustainable creativity and sustainable lifespan: a model for assessing copyright infringements Taina Pihlajarinne; 4. Upcycling as a design strategy in light of European design protection Dana Beldiman, Stina Teilmann-Lock and Anna Tischner; 5. Trademark law and upcycling: tailoring 'Old-Fashioned' principles Bernardo Calabrese; 6. Upcycling and patents: finding the contours for social innovation and sustainability Neethu Rajam and Daniel Acquah; 7. Copyright misuse and upcycling John T. Cross; 8. Marketing of upcycled products from a perspective of European and German unfair competition law Jochen Glöckner and Sarah Legner; 9. Traditional knowledge and upcycling Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero; 10. Craft geographical indications and the challenge of upcycling products Pilar Montero García-Noblejas; Part III. Territorial Policies: 11. The African policy approach to upcycling Daniel Acquah, Neethu Rajam and Ama Opuku Acquah; 12. Determining the case of fashion upcycling in Asia: infringement or exception to intellectual property Gunjan Chawla Arora and Tianxiang He; 13. Fashion Upcycling: the problem of overlapping intellectual property rights and how to solve it Martin Senftleben; 14. Upcycling and renewal Shubha Ghosh; 15. Upcycling down under: innovation, renovation and intellectual property rights in the Pacific region Jennifer Campion; 16. Can the current IP system foster upcycling in Latin America? Juan I. Correa and Nicolás Martín Hermida; Part IV. Zooming Out: A Broader Picture on Upcycling: 17. Just my reimagination, just your intellectual property Sabine Jacques; 18. A conceptual map of the right to repair: where upcycling fits in Anthony D. Rosborough; 19. Interpreting the destruction of goods as a corrective measure for patent infringement to foster sustainability Mikko Kaunisvaara, Rosa Ballardini and Emmanuel Salami; 20. Laying competition to waste: the economics of resale, recycling, and upcycling Joost Poort; 21. Behavioural science of upcycling Jarno Tuominen; 22. Empirical perspective: upcycling with branded material through the eyes of consumers Katarzyna Stasiuk, Anna Tischner, Stina Teilmann-Lock and Dana Beldiman.