International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy [Connected eBook]

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New to the Fifth Edition:

• New co-authors: Ryan B. Abbott, Mira Burri, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, and Maegan McCann, who bring additional expertise to the book
• The latest developments in bilateral and regional agreements regulating intellectual property, including implementation of the EU Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court system and the EU intermediaries’ liability regime for copyright infringement
• Important new judicial decisions, including the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Google v. Oracle and Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, as well as decisions from EU and U.S. courts addressing identifiers for food products (Emmental and Gruyere cheeses)
• Developments in AI in the context of content-creation, inventions, IP-registration and enforcement, as well as support or substitute for human decision-making
• The expanding discourse on trade secret protection and its importance for international technology transfer
• The phenomenon of the anti-suit injunction in international patent litigation

• An approach to the international IP system that situates the rules within the broader context of international law and the public policy objectives that governments, industry, and interest groups are seeking to achieve
• Case law from international dispute settlement bodies, as well as from national and regional courts and administrative authorities
• Discussion of patent, trademark, copyright, design, trade secret, and geographical indication protection, as well as plant variety protection, the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, and the role of open source and open innovation systems
• An explanation of the European Union Unitary Patent system
• Exploration of the increasingly important role of emerging market IP systems
• Materials to help students understand the disputes between the United States and China involving IP, investment, and transfer of technology
• Identification of important trends in the enforcement of IP

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