Test Tubes for Global Intellectual Property Issues
Small Market Economies

Susy Frankel uses examples of small market economies to provide a unique insight on global intellectual property issues.

Susy Frankel (Author)

9781107013148, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 July 2015

250 pages
23 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

'Susy Frankel has performed an invaluable service for students, scholars and policymakers trying to make sense of the international intellectual property system. Drawing on her own wide-ranging work, but introducing the particular focus of small market economies, this innovative book offers a refreshing new angle on the system as a whole. This focus not only makes real the sometimes abstract claim that global standards might usefully be pursued by diverse countries in different ways, but also allows Frankel to present complex topics in a very readable form. Students and scholars will learn a lot from this treatment. And national officials implementing their international obligations would do well to consider some of the options that Frankel highlights.' Graeme B. Dinwoodie, University of Oxford

Small market economies provide a valuable insight into how a country might balance competing interests in global intellectual property. As developed countries that are also net-importers of intellectual property, small market economies have similar concerns to some developing countries. This duality of developed and developing country interests has resulted in some innovative ways of calibrating laws so that they both support national economic and social needs and honour international commitments. In this book, Susy Frankel uses examples from the small market economies of Singapore, New Zealand and Israel to address global intellectual property issues. Those issues include approaching treaty interpretation to both assist in implementation of obligations and utilisation of flexibilities, and effective dispute resolution; the links between trade and innovation; when and how patent and copyright law can be flexible; the importance of trade marks to small businesses; parallel importing; and the protection of traditional knowledge.

Foreword Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
Preface
1. The unique position of small market economies
2. Trading in intellectual property: the TRIPS Agreement and Free Trade Agreements
3. Interpretation of international intellectual property agreements
4. Intellectual property and the nexus with innovation and cultural policies
5. Flexing patent law
6. Approaches to copyright
7. Trade mark law
8. Why small market economies do and don't parallel import
9. An insight into protecting traditional knowledge and innovation
10. Overview: what the international community can learn from the small market economy experience.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Comparative law [LAM], Law [L]