New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Law

IP and Cultural Heritage - Geographical Indications - Enforcement - Overprotection

Christopher Heath, Anselm Kamperman Sanders

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781847312563
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Intellectual Property Law
• Index: Law

This book, arising from the collaboration between the IEEM in Macao and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, provides up-to-date information on developments in global intellectual property law and policy and their impact on regional economic and cultural development. The first two parts of the book give broad coverage to the protection of relative newcomers to the field of international intellectual property: cultural heritage and geographical indications. The third part deals with issues of enforcement which have become a major point of interest since the substantive intellectual property rules were put in place. Particular emphasis is given to enforcement systems in Asia, and to the subject matter of criminal enforcement that in many parts of the world is considered an important tool of effective protection. The final part of the book deals with the issue of multiple protection and overprotection, now a growing issue in IP law.

Table of contents

• Half Title Page
• Half Title verso
• Title Page
• Title verso
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1. Back to the Future: Intellectual Property Rights and the Modernisation of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• 2. Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in Australia and Southeast Asia
• 3. Copyright Collecting Societies in Developing Countries: Possibilities and Dangers
• 4. Maori Culture and Trade Mark Law in New Zealand
• 5. Geographical Indications: International, Bilateral and Regional Agreements
• 6. Future Solutions for Protecting Geographical Indications Worldwide
• 7. The Conflict Between Trade Marks and Geographical Indications - The Budweiser Case in Portugal
• 8. Software and Computer-Related Inventions: Protection by Patent and Copyright
• 9. The Protection of Aesthetic Creations as Three-Dimensional Marks, Designs, Copyright or Under Unfair Competition
• 10. Copyright, Contract and the Legal Protection of Technological Measures: Providing a Rationale to the 'Copyright Exceptions Interface'
• 11. Essential Facilities and Appropriate Remuneration of Achievements
• 12 Terminator Genes as 'Technical' Protection Measures for Patents?
• 13. Enforcing Industrial Property Rights: Patent
• 14. Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Interaction Between Public Authorities and Private Interests
• 15. Recent Developments in Judicial Protection for Intellectual Property in China
• 16. The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Hong Kong