Research handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization : the first 50 years and beyond
2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishment of WIPO. This unique and wide-ranging Research Handbook brings together eminent scholars and experts who assess WIPO's role and programmes during...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
2020
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property
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| Schlagworte: | World Intellectual Property Organization Intellectual property Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (492 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishment of WIPO. This unique and wide-ranging Research Handbook brings together eminent scholars and experts who assess WIPO's role and programmes during its first half-century, as well as discussing the challenges facing the organization as it enters its second. Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization - 50 years of the World Intellectual Property Organization -- 1. The foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization: what came before -- 2. The role of WIPO as an international organization -- 3. WIPO: a brief institutional history and overview -- 4. WIPO: a view from inside and outside the tent -- 5. Copyright and related rights: WIPO's role in formulating international norms in this area -- 6. WIPO's role in procedural and substantive patent law harmonization -- 7. Non-conventional marks and the obstacle of functionality - WIPO's role in fleshing out the rule -- 8. Making a place for place-based IP: WIPO and geographical indications -- 9. Protection of industrial designs: a twenty-first-century challenge for WIPO -- 10. WIPO, development cooperation and the Development Agenda -- 11. Education, training and technical assistance programs -- 12. The relationship between WIPO and the WTO -- 13. Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions -- 14. WIPO and IP dispute resolution -- 15. WIPO's role in collating and publishing data and statistics, and in economic analysis -- 16. Muddling through successfully: financing and governing WIPO -- 17. WIPO and treaty interpretation -- 18. Caught in the middle: WIPO and emerging economies -- 19. 'Nothing for us, without us': growth and diversity in observers' participation in WIPO -- 20. Modernizing copyright and saving the planet? Speculations on WIPO's future role -- 21. WIPO - appraising the first 50 years and looking beyond -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (492 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781788977678 178897767X 9781788977661 1788977661 |