The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of the CEIPI/ICTSD publication series Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System,produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Development (ICTSD). The CEIPI/ICTSD publication series intends to provide high quality academic and policy-oriented papers dealing with topics that are of global relevance because of their normative preeminence, economic relevance, and socioeconomic impact. On this occasion, the focus of interest has been specialized judicial adjudication in the intellectual property domain.
In order to address this multifaceted issue, the series editors invited Professor Jacques de Werra from the University of Geneva to write the lead article, titled Intellectual Property Courts – Issues and Challenges. As highlighted by de Werra, under the TRIPS Agreement countries have the option to create specialised intellectual property courts. The experience in both developed and developing countries varies and it is difficult to give a simple and unique answer to the question of whether it is beneficial to establish specialised intellectual property courts. Jacques de Werra concludes that how advantageous or necessary it is to establish specialised intellectual property courts in a given jurisdiction depends on a number of factors that go beyond intellectual property. This thesis is confirmed by the analysis of the situations in Brazil, India, China, and Uganda made by the country analysis provided by renowned experts in their respective papers: Denis Borges Barbosa is Permanent Professor of the Institute of Economy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa is Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; Shamnad Basheer is the Honorary Research Chair Professor of IP Law at the Institute of Law, Nirma University; Jacques de Werra is Professor at the University of Geneva; Susan Isiko Štrba is visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand; and Hong Xue is Professor and Director of the Institute for Internet Policy and Law of Beijing Normal University.
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