Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920

P. Sean Morris is a Research Scholar at the Faculty of Law University of Helsinki and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sean is the editor of two recent volumes on the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ): Transforming the Politics of International Law: The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Formation of the World Court in the League of Nations (Routledge, 2021); The League of Nations and the Development of International Law: A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (Routledge, 2021).

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Introduction: Framing the Law of Nations in Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century


 P. Sean Morris





Part 1: Industrial Innovation in History and Conflicts


1 The Key Historical Influences Leading to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883


 Louise J. Duncan





2 Challenging the Normative Impact of Technological Innovation


 From the Norm Development Process of the Paris Convention to Global Patent Justice


 Johannes Thumfart





3 Innovation Diplomacy


 International Exhibitions and the Rise of Innovation in the Law of Nations


 P. Sean Morris





4 Mr Patent Goes to War!


 Industrial Property and the Breakdown of the International Order during World War I


 Phillip Johnson





Part 2: Film and Regal Approaches to Copyright


5 Stuck in a Waltz


 The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Imperial Approach to the Berne Convention


 Péter Munkácsi





6 The Man behind the Curtain


 Developing Film’s Double Exposure of Intellectual Property


 Johanna Gibson





7 The Untold Story of the First Copyright Statute of China


 Exploring the 1910 Copyright Code of the Great Qing Dynasty


 Jyh-An Lee and Yangzi Li





Part 3: Trademarks, Terroir and the Colonies


8 The Crystallization of International Norms


 A Case Study on Diffusion of Trademark Norms in Early-20th Century China


 Ainee Adam





9 The Unusual Extension of Imperial Intellectual Property Laws to Colonies in Africa


 Daniel Opoku Acquah





10 Early American Federal Trademark Law and the Law of Nations


 Zvi S. Rosen





11 The Transforming Face of Terroir


 Unde Venis Geographical Indications?


 Devanshi Saxena and Esther van Zimmeren





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