Intellectual Property Law in South East Asia

Edited by Christoph Antons, Professor of Law, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Australia and Michael Blakeney, Winthrop Professor of Law, UWA Law School, University of Western Australia

Contents:

1 Intellectual property, creativity and innovation in ASEAN 1
Christoph Antons and Michael Blakeney

PART I RECENT IP DEVELOPMENTS IN
INDIVIDUAL ASEAN COUNTRIES
2 Intellectual property law in Singapore 18
Ng-Loy Wee Loon
3 Intellectual property developments in Malaysia 33
Lim Heng Gee
4 The state of intellectual property protection in the
Philippines: What lies ahead? 79
Ferdinand M. Negre and Jonathan Q. Perez
5 Brunei Darussalam: Building an intellectual property
system for a knowledge and innovation economy 127
Gabriel Garcia
6 Intellectual property rights in South East Asian least
developed countries: The cases of Cambodia, the Lao
People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar 156
Gabriel Garcia

PART II ASEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
DEVELOPMENTS AND THE WIDER REGION
7 Provisions on intellectual property in ASEAN free trade
agreements: Issues and implications in policy and implementation 216
Thitapha Wattanapruttipaisan
8 The incremental development of the ASEAN–China
strategic partnership for intellectual property 266
Peter K. Yu

PART III COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN ASEAN
9 The battle against digital copyright infringements in ASEAN 296
Hannah Yee-Fen Lim
10 Intellectual property, farmers’ rights and agriculture in the
ASEAN countries 317
Christoph Antons and Michael Blakeney
11 Enforcement of IPRs in ASEAN 357
Michael Blakeney
12 Pharmaceutical patent laws in South East Asian countries 377
Christopher Arup

Index