Contents
Part I Introduction
1. Intellectual property law: an anatomical overview
Part II Social and normative foundations
1. The basic structure of intellectual property law
3. What kind of rights are intellectual property rights?
4. Intellectual property as a public interest mechanism
5. Intellectual property as a public interest mechanism
5. Intellectual property and human rights: mapping an evolving and contested relationship
6. Intellectual property incentives: economics and policy implications
Part III Emergence and development
7. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in Western Europe
8. The emergence and development of the international intellectual property system
9. The emergence and development of United States intellectual property law
10. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in Canada
11. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in Australia and New Zealand
12. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in central and Eastern Europe
13. Intellectual property in Asia: ASEAN, East Asia, and India
14. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in the Middle East
15. Three centuries and counting: the emergence and development of intellectual property law in Africa
16. The emergence and development of intellectual property law in South America
Part IV Rights
17. Patents and related rights: a global Kaleidoscope
18. Copyrights
19. Trade marks and allied rights
20. Design protection
21. Rights in data and information
22. Overlapping rights
23. Intellectual property licensing
24. Remedies
25. Cross-border intellectual property enforcement
Part V The political economy of intellectual property
26. Users, patents, and innovation policy
27. Traditional knowledge, indigenous peoples, and local communities
28. Intellectual property, development, and access to knowledge
29. Workers in the "groves of academe": the claim of Academics to copyright and patents
30. Intellectual property meets the internet
31. Intellectual property and competition law
32. Intellectual property and private ordering
33. Intellectual property and public health
34. Intellectual property and climate change

We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the primary means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It aims to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to
support solutions to global environmental and health problems, as well as freedom of expression and democracy. It also seeks to stimulate economic growth and competition, accounting for its centrality to EU Internal Market and international trade and development policies. Additionally, it is of
enormous and increasing importance to business.
As a result there is a substantial and ever-growing interest in intellectual property law across all spheres of industry and social policy, including an interest in its legal principles, its social and normative foundations, and its place and operation in the political economy. This handbook written
by leading academics and practitioners from the field of intellectual property law, and suitable for both a specialist legal readership and an intelligent but non-specialist legal and non-legal readership, provides a comprehensive account of the following areas:
- The foundations of IP law, including its emergence and development in different jurisdictions and regions;
- The substantive rules and principles of IP; and
- Important issues arising from the existence and operation of IP in the political economy.