Intellectual Property and Private International Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841135397)

The relationship between intellectual property and private international law is a fascinating and multi-faceted one. Both fields are inherently international, but it is the exponential increase in conflicts involving trans-border elements, in a world characterised by global trade and borderless communication structures, that has, in modern times, drawn the two disciplines close.

The essays contained in this book, first presented at a Symposium in Munich, set out possible visions for a future system of international and regional jurisdiction and applicable law that is better adapted to the increasingly supranational character of IP rights. A second feature of the book is its treatment of 'harmonisation' of choice-of-law issues. Framed by these two elements - international jurisdiction on the one hand and perspectives for harmonised choice of law rules in an international context on the other - specific European themes are also addressed; jurisdiction, the establishment of a European judiciary in the patent field, the relationship between regional (European) systems and an international jurisdiction convention, and the recent proposal for a Regulation on applicable law in non-contractual relationships (Rome II).

Author: Josef Drexl
ISBN-10: 1841135399
ISBN-13: 9781841135397
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85d