A Theory Of Transnational Intellectual Property Law

A Theory of Transnational Intellectual Property Law

Transnational Intellectual Property Law

As companies and organisations increasingly operate across national boundaries, so the incentive to understand how to acquire, deploy and protect IP rights in multiple national jurisdictions has rapidly increased. Transnational Intellectual Property Law meets the need for a book that introduces contemporary intellectual property as it is practiced in today’s global context. Focusing on three major IP regimes – the United States, Europe and China – the unique transnational approach of this textbook will help law students and lawyers across the world understand not only how IP operates in different national contexts, but also how to coordinate IP protection across numerous national jurisdictions. International IP treaties are also covered, but in the context of an overall emphasis on transnational coordination of legal rights and strategies.

The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property

In The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property, Susan K. Sell examines the many reasons that IP is such a contested field, and she focuses on the dynamics driving change and the implications they have for governance and implementing more equitable policies. Throughout, she relies on the metaphor of cat and mouse to capture the complex dynamics of power, the strategic use of institutions, and discourse that drive the politics of IP. Throughout, Sell combines insights from political economy, law, and sociology and offers new insights into regime complexity and dynamics. More broadly, the framework she develops can be applied to a variety of highly contested issues, including financial regulation and climate change.