Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization
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Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization

The First 50 Years and Beyond

9781788977661 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Sam Ricketson, Emeritus Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Publication Date: 2020 ISBN: 978 1 78897 766 1 Extent: 496 pp
2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishment of WIPO. This unique and wide-ranging Research Handbook brings together eminent scholars and experts who assess WIPO''s role and programmes during its first half-century, as well as discussing the challenges facing the organization as it enters its second.

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2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishment of WIPO. This unique and wide-ranging Research Handbook brings together eminent scholars and experts who assess WIPO''s role and programmes during its first half-century, as well as discussing the challenges facing the organization as it enters its second.

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the history and development of WIPO from its conception, through the changing of its mission over time, to its current position as a largely self-financing specialized UN agency. Chapters examine WIPO’s education and technical assistance programmes, its relationship with the WTO, its interaction with emerging economies and WIPO’s role in treaty interpretation and substantive and procedural harmonization.

The Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization will be a key resource for scholars of trade and development, and intellectual property. It will also be of value to intellectual property practitioners, government officials and non-governmental organizations concerned with intellectual property, trade, development, and human rights issues and advocacy.
Contributors
Contributors: T. Aplin, M. Blakeney, A.F. Christie, G. Davies, G. Dinwoodie, R. Dreyfus, A. Duxbury, M. Ficsor, S. Frankel, D. Gangjee, D. Gervais, R. Giblin, J. Ginsburg, I. Heath, A. Kur, J. Liedes, D. Lindsay, A. Quaedvlieg, J. Reichman, S. Ricketson, A. Taubman, S. von Lewinski, K. Weatherall, R. Xalabarder, P.K. Yu

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Contents:

Introduction: 50 years of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Sam Ricketson

1. The foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization: what came before
Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson

2. The Role of WIPO as an International Organization
Alison Duxbury

3. WIPO: a brief institutional history and overview
Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson

4. WIPO: a view from inside and outside the tent
Dr. Mihály Ficsor

5. Copyright and related rights: WIPO’s role in formulating international norms in this area
Sam Ricketson and Tanya Aplin

6. WIPO’s Role in Procedural and Substantive Patent Law Harmonization
Rochelle Dreyfuss and Jerome Reichman

7. Non-Conventional Marks and the Obstacle of Functionality – WIPO’s Role in Fleshing Out the Telle Quelle Rule
Graeme Dinwoodie and Annette Kur

8. Making a Place for Place-Based IP: WIPO and Geographical Indications
Dev Gangjee

9. Protection of Industrial Designs: a Twenty first Century Challenge for WIPO
Antoon Quaedvlieg

10. WIPO, Development Cooperation and the Development Agenda
Michael Blakeney

11. Education and Training, Technical Assistance Programs
Raquel Xalabarder

12. The Relationship between WIPO and the WTODaniel Gervais

13. Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Silke von Lewinski

14. WIPO and IP Dispute Resolution
Andrew F. Christie

15. WIPO’s Role in Collating and Publishing Data and Statistics, and in Economic Analysis
David Lindsay

16. Muddling Through Successfully: financing and governing WIP
OIan Heath

17. WIPO and Treaty Interpretation
Susy Frankel

18. Caught in the Middle: WIPO and Emerging Economies
Peter K Yu

19. ‘Nothing for us, without us’: growth and diversity in observers'' participation in WIPO.
Antony Taubman

20. Modernizing Copyright and Saving the Planet? Speculations on WIPO’s Future Role
Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall, Jane C Ginsburg and Jukka Liedes

21. WIPO – appraising the first 50 years
Sam Ricketson

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