Industrial Property in the Bio-Medical Age Edited by: Christopher Heath, Anselm Kamperman Sanders List Price: $199.00   Eligible for Free Standard Shipping on U.S. Prepaid Orders Imprint: Kluwer Law International ISBN: 9789041199263 Hardcover: 304 pages Available: Item ships in 3-5 Business Days

The book provides the reader with a complete picture of international and regional developments in the area of biotechnology, plant variety protection and patent protection (these topics feature very prominently in the current discussion on the future direction of the TRIPs Agreement), as well as the scope of the patent right in respect of claims of invention and research and development and places these developments in the context of international trade and enforcement mechanism that members of the WTO are required to incorporate. Part IV gives an outlook on possible future development and mechanisms for the protection of incremential innovation that are feasible for developing countries and small industries. The book therefore covers the edges of the current IP system (with plant varieties and utility models) as well as the more `mainstream¿ discussion in the developed nations. All topics are of international relevancy, while they are also of relevance and interest to Asia. The book is part of the Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law. Intellectual Property Harmonisation within ASEAN and APEC Christopher Heath, Christoph Antons, Michael Blakeney 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. An more... Add to cart   |  Price: $272.00  |  ISBN: 9789041122926  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    Intellectual Property Law in Asia Christopher Heath Rather suddenly (since 1990 or so), intellectual property rights have asserted their legal presence in countries throughout Asia. However, even though the TRIPs agreement has in many cases been the catalyst their legal framework has come with complex, inescapable influences from Asian history, inclu more... Add to cart   |  Price: $323.00  |  ISBN: 9789041198945  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International  Intellectual Property Law in Korea Christopher Heath Although Korea is fully assimilated into today's international intellectual property regime, seekers of intellectual property rights in Korea may still encounter vestiges of both the system applied during the Japanese occupation (1910 1945), which was based on common law, and the subsequent civil co more... Add to cart   |  Price: $298.00  |  ISBN: 9789041199065  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    Intellectual Property Law in Taiwan Christopher Heath Taiwan has made significant efforts in the last five years to overhaul its IP system according to international standards and since January 2002 has been a member to WTO/TRIPS. After frequent revisions of the IP laws in the 1990s in order to gear up for WTO accession, the legal system has now reache more... Add to cart   |  Price: $262.00  |  ISBN: 9789041199201  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    Legal Rules of Technology Transfer in Asia Christopher Heath, Kung-Chung Liu Despite the harmonizing effect of TRIPS and intellectual property law in general, technology transfer remains firmly rooted in domestic contract law and public policy. However, similarities in legal culture across many national borders keep this problem to a minimum – until we approach the tec more... Add to cart   |  Price: $284.00  |  ISBN: 9789041198839  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    Parallel Imports in Asia Christopher Heath In the absence of international rules governing parallel imports and exhaustion of intellectual property rights, issues arising in this context are left to the individual countries concerned. Asian countries, although generally more open towards parallel imports than Europe or the U.S., show marked more... Add to cart   |  Price: $235.00  |  ISBN: 9789041121141  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    The Protection of Well-Known Marks in Asia Christopher Heath, Kung-Chung Liu Trade mark law has become an increasingly important field of law in the context of a rapidly globalizing economy. The promotion and protection of marks is widely viewed as the most important tool for a successful expansion of business, particularly in areas of economic transformation such as the Asi more... Add to cart   |  Price: $188.00  |  ISBN: 9789041197054  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International    The System of Unfair Competition Prevention in Japan Christopher Heath This is the first in-depth treatment in English of Japanese law and practice governing unfair competition. The author analyzes the interaction of the relevant laws - and the case law derived from each - to present a systematic description of how business reputation, trade secrets, well-known marks,  more... Add to cart   |  Price: $228.00  |  ISBN: 9789041198372  |  Format: Hardcover  Imprint: Kluwer Law International