Intellectual Property Ordering beyond Borders

Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a professor of IP law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. Grosse Ruse-Khan's research, teaching, and government training focus on international IP protection and development issues, trade and investment law, and interfaces amongst legal orders in international law, including transnational norms set by private actors. Axel Metzger is Professor of Civil Law and Intellectual Property at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on IP, technology law, and private law. Metzger's research has a particular focus on international aspects of IP.

Part I. The Broader Environment for IP Protection Beyond Borders: 1. The international IP system from an economist's perspective Keith E. Maskus; 2. Cast into the stones of international law: a critique of the UPOV standards and the underlying welfare and scientific assumptions they globalize Mrinalini Kochupillai and Julia Köninger; 3. Economic nationalism in intellectual property policy and law Alexander Peukert; 4. Hybrid international intellectual property protection: coherence, governance and balance Tobias Stoll; Part II. IP Protection within its General International (Economic) Law Context: 5. The role of customary international law for intellectual property protection beyond borders Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan; 6. Interpretation of IP treaties in accordance with Article 31-33 VCLT: a case study on the practice of the European Patent Office Axel Metzger; 7. Parallel trade and exhaustion of intellectual property in WTO law revisited Thomas Cottier; Part III. The Scope and Mechanisms of International IP Treaties: 8. Universalism in international copyright law as seen through the lens of Marrakesh Graeme B. Dinwoodie; 9. Measuring the scope of obligations under international treaties – (to what extent) are IP conventions binding on Paris- or TRIPS-plus legislation? Annette Kur; 10. Floors and ceilings in international copyright treaties: Berne, TRIPS, WCT Minima and Maxima Jane C. Ginsburg; Part IV. Implementing International IP Provisions: 11. Self-executing international intellectual property obligations? Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss; 12. Technical assistance as a tool for implementing and expanding IP treaty obligations Daniel Opoku Acquah; 13. How external factors shaped domestic intellectual property law in Latin America Juan I. Correa; 14. Creating statutory remuneration rights in copyright law: what policy options under the international legal framework? Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko.