Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements presents the papers of the sixth IP conference organised by the Macau Institute of European Studies (IEEM) on intellectual property law and the economic challenges for Asia. The objective of the conferences is to provide up-to-date information on developments in global intellectual property law and policy and their impact on regional economic and cultural development. The current volume deals with the implications of free trade agreements for the international framework of intellectual property law, a topic of enormous economic and legal importance given the increasing number of free trade agreements in force or under negotiation.

Part I General Issues

Chapter 1. The Development Agenda for Intellectual Property
ANSELM KAMPERMAN SANDERS

Chapter 2. TRIPS-Plus Rules under Free Trade Agreements
JAKKRIT KUANPOTH

Part II Law and Policy of Multilateral v Bilateral Agreements

Chapter 3. The Changing Landscape of International Intellectual Property
DANIEL J GERVAIS

Chapter 4. TRIPS and FTAs: A World of Preferential or Detrimental Relations?
ROGER KAMPF

Chapter 5. The Most-Favoured Nation Treatment and Intellectual Property Rights
CHRISTOPHER HEATH

Part III FTAs and Patents

Chapter 6. Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals-Doha versus Free Trade Agreements
NG-LOY WEE LOON

Chapter 7. Free Trade Agreements, UPOV and Plant Varieties
MARISTELA BASSO & EDSON BEAS RODRIGUES JR

Part IV FTAs and Copyrights

Chapter 8. Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements
ANDREW CHRISTIE, SOPHIE WALLER & KIMBERLEE WEATHERALL

Chapter 9. Copyright and Free Trade-A Korean Perspective
BYUNG-IL KIM

Part V FTAs and Antitrust

Chapter 10. International Antitrust and Intellectual Property
ANDREAS HEINEMANN

“...a timely, comprehensive and important contribution to international IP research and scholarship...This book not only addresses various specific problems raised by FTA IP rules, but tackles important systemic issues.” –  Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, IIC Review, Issue 8