Intellectual Property and Human Rights

Edited by Willem Grosheide, Van Doorne Lawyers, The Netherlands

Contents:

Preface

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE: THE LAW AND ITS TRENDS
1. General Introduction
Willem Grosheide

2. Human Rights Law Status Report
Cees Flinterman

3. Expansion and Convergence in Copyright Law
Madeleine de Cock Buning

4. Patents and Human Rights: Where is the Paradox?
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss

PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
5. Introduction
Jerzy Koopman

COPYRIGHT LAW AND PATENT LAW: TO ITS RECOGNITION – DIFFERING VIEWS

6. Is Copyright Fit for the 21st Century? No!
Joost Smiers

7. Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and the Right to Health
Duncan Matthews

8. On Patents and Human Rights
Jan Brinkhof

9. Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim the Backing of Human Rights
Wendy J. Gordon

PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS AS RESTRICTIONS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
10. Introduction
Lucky Belder

COPYRIGHT LAW AND PATENT LAW: TO ITS ENFORCEMENT – DIFFERING VIEWS

11. A Practical Analysis of the Human Rights Paradox in Intellectual Property Law: Russian Roulette
Charlotte Waelde and Abbe E.L. Brown

12. Human Rights’ Limitations in Patent Law
Geertrui Van Overwalle

13. Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Patent and Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Charles R. McManis

14. A Comment on ‘Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Patent and Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge’
Martin J. Adelman

Index