Product Description: 'Even as geographical indications allude to a number of different intellectual property instruments - and, of course, commercial and trading practices - they were only formally defined in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...read more

Product Description: 'Michael Blakeney's book is an excellent guide to the dizzying complexity of protecting geography-based brands in the EU. Call them appellations, designations of origin, or GIs, any practitioner in this area of law will want Blakeney's book in his or her library...read more

Product Description: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) play an important role in the struggle for food security and encouraging agricultural research and development. This book examines these roles as well as the international relationship between IPRs, agricultural biotechnology, access to biological resources, food security and globalization, paying particular attention to proposals for the protection of Farmers' Rights, traditional knowledge, GM crops and the impact of competition laws...read more

Product Description: In several major areas of international trade¿particularly software and technology transfer¿a harmonised regime of intellectual property law is a crucial prerequisite to success. Yet this legal concept appears to be extraordinarily difficult to establish on any agreed-upon basis among countries...read more

Product Description: This major new volume is a complete reference tool for intellectual property specialists interested in the complex system of conventions, treaties, and agreements which protect intellectual property. The book features a comprehensive collection of the key intellectual property treaties concluded at international and regional level, including all such treaties of relevance to the US and Europe...read more