CEIPI / ICTSD Publication series on Global perspectives and challenges for the intellectual property system

The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to announce the publication of the fifth issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System, produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

This new issue, Intellectual Property and Digital Trade in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, edited by Xavier Seuba, Christophe Geiger and Julien Pénin, elaborates on changes in modes of innovation, production and commercialisation of innovation, which are central in current discussions and relate closely to intellectual property law and competition. The chapters of this volume feed the debate, identify the central aspects and may be instrumental at drafting a research agenda.

The origin of this publication was the conference Intellectual property and digitalization: challenges for intellectual property management, organised in May 2017 by the CEIPI–Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée (BETA) Project in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property, in association with the International Institute for Intellectual Property Management (I3PM). The objective of the conference was to shed light on the most recent evolution in intellectual property brought by digitalisation, gathering an eclectic group of experts from academia, public institutions, and industry.

The CEIPI–BETA Project in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property was launched in 2013, becoming the first joint research initiative of two constituent bodies of the University of Strasbourg, made up by law and economics scholars. Seminars, workshops, publications and conferences have been possible since then thanks to the interaction of both groups of scholars and the support of Air Liquide and Total.

This publication contains two largely interdependent parts. Part One: From Digital Trade to Commercialisation and Management of Intellectual Property includes contributions by Keith E. Maskus, Yann Ménière and Ilja Rudyk, Sean M. O’Connor, Catalina Martínez, Peter Bittner, and Alissa Zeller. Part Two: Regulating and Using Big Data in the Digital World includes contributions by Reto Hilty, Christophe Geiger, Giancarlo Frosio, and Oleksandr Bulayenko, Ryan Abbott, Timo Minssen and Jens Schovsbo, Francesco Lissoni and Gabriele Cristelli, and Claudia Jamin.

The CEIPI/ICTSD publication series provides high quality academic and policy-oriented papers dealing with topics that are of global relevance because of their normative pre-eminence, economic relevance, and socio-economic impact.

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The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System, produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

This new issue, Current Alliances in International Intellectual Property Lawmaking: The emergence and Impact of the Mega-Regionals, edited by Pedro Roffe, Senior Associate at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and Xavier Seuba, Senior Lecturer, Academic Coordinator and Judicial Training Manager at CEIPI, explores the impact of plurilateralism agreements on trade related international intellectual property law.     

The chapters making up this volume review systemic, substantive and enforcement-related issues arising from plurilateralism, and do so by analysing the past, the current context and the most recently negotiated plurilateral trade agreements. Times have clearly been turbulent for global trade. Mounting critiques on the apparent failure of trade to enhance productivity, investment and technology flows have only been met with a greater slump in the growth of global trade and the rise of protectionism. At the same time, the number of free trade agreements has burgeoned as a result of longstanding disagreements, between countries at the multilateral level on a variety of issues.

Against this backdrop, this volume gathers contributions by well-known researchers in International Law, International Trade and Intellectual Property Law, writing from distinctive perspectives and reflecting on the systemic consequences of plurilateralism and the implications of these trends for the international system, with contributions by Thomas Cottier, Frederick M. Abbott, Mira Burri, Peter K. Yu, Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Pedro Roffe and Xavier Seuba.

The CEIPI-ICTSD publication series provides high quality academic and policy-oriented papers dealing with topics that are of global relevance because of their normative pre-eminence, economic relevance, and socio-economic impact.

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The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is very pleased to announce the publication of the third issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System, produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). The new issue, “Intellectual Property and Access to Science and Culture: Convergence or Conflict?”, edited by Professor Christophe Geiger, Director General and Director of the Research Department at the CEIPI, explores the relationship between intellectual property (IP) rights and the right to science and culture.

This topic has recently served as the basis for an increasing body of legal scholarship and reports from international organisations, including two well-noted reports in 2014 and 2015 issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, which shed some light on the complex interactions between IP regimes and access to science and culture, but also generated further discussion. The volume includes papers authored by prominent scholars from both the intellectual property and human rights fields, including an introduction by the former UN Special Rapporteur, Farida Shaheed, herself.

The CEIPI/ICTSD publication series provides high quality academic and policy-oriented papers dealing with topics that are of global relevance because of their normative pre-eminence, economic relevance, and socio-economic impact.

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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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The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication series on Global Perspectives and Challenges for the Intellectual Property System,produced jointly with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). This 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.

This inaugural issue, entitled Rethinking International Intellectual Property Law: What Institutional Environment for the Development and Enforcement of IP Law?, offers a collection of papers dealing with the institutional environment for the development and enforcement of intellectual property law.

The authors in this volume (Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University of Strasbourg; Carlos Correa, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires; Craig Nard, Professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Daniel Gervais, Professor at Vanderbilt University; Xavier Seuba, Senior Lecturer at CEIPI, University of Strasbourg; Pedro Roffe, Senior Associate at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development) introduce four overriding themes that characterise contemporary intellectual property law. Three of them cut across most of the contributions, namely the question of forum shifting, the evolving role of multilateral organizations such as WTO and WIPO and the continuous but evolving nature of the North-South divide. The fourth theme delves into the role of the judiciary in addressing complex and contemporary patent related questions.

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