Product Description: This collection, made possible by the recent convergence of intellectual property and private international law as critical disciplines, brings together the most important papers on these now linked subjects. More and more issues of private international law arise in the area of intellectual property, and the articles selected chart the route that both disciplines have covered together, discussing bridges built and dead-ends reached...read more

Product Description: The Research Handbook on Cross-Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property systematically analyzes the unique difficulties posed by cross-border intellectual property disputes in the modern world.The contributions to this book focus on the enforcement of intellectual property primarily from a cross-border perspective...read more

Product Description: 'Comprehensive and up-to-date, this collection of contributions on EU copyright law signals the emergence of a truly European body of legal commentary on copyright law. The authors, many of them very distinguished, hail from 9 different Member States...read more

Product Description: Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law provides readers with a clear introduction to UK intellectual property law, whilst carefully placing the law in its global context and acknowledging the influence of EU and other international jurisdictions over its development...read more

Product Description: This innovative book celebrates the tri-centenary of modern copyright, which began with the enactment of the Statute of Anne by the British Parliament in 1709, and was soon followed by other copyright legislation abroad. The Statute of Anne is traditionally claimed to be the world’s first copyright statute, and is thus viewed as the origin of a system of national laws that today exists in virtually all countries of the world...read more

Product Description: Stem cell research, and particularly embryonic stem cell research, while offering the prospect of developing theories for serious life-threatening diseases, also raises a number of difficult and controversial moral questions. This is reflected in a variety of moral perspectives and regulatory regimes, already adopted or in the process of being developed, in EU Member States...read more

Product Description: China's accession to the WTO and TRIPS heralded massive changes in Chinese intellectual property (IP) law. This book asks whether all aspects of Chinese law and practice are now TRIPs compliant? The study offers both Chinese and European perspectives...read more