Intellectual property and free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region / Christoph Antons, Reto M. Hilty, editors.

Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2015]

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KVC370.A6 I58 2015

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viii, 438 pages ; 25 cm.

(OCoLC)900397593

"After concluding that further progress in the [WTO] Doha round was unlikely, Pacific Rim nations recently have progressed with the negotiations of a greatly expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that includes industrialised economies and developed countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, recently emerged economies such as Singapore, but also several developing countries in Asia and Latin America such as Malaysia and Vietnam ... The book will provide an assessment of these dynamics in the world's fastest growing region. It will look at the IP chapters from a legal perspective, but also put the developments into a socio-economic and political context. Many agreements in fact are concluded because of this context rather than for purely economic reasons or to achieve progress in fields like IP law. The structure of the book follows an outline that groups countries into interest alliances according to their respective IP priorities."--Back cover.

"This book has its origin in a 2-day workshop on "IP Aspects of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific Region," held at the University of Wollongong in November 2008 ... The original workshop papers have been completely revised and updated and take into account the developments until the end of May 2014"--Page v.

Includes bibliographical references.

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