Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Antons, Christoph (Editor), Hilty, Reto M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 24
• Subjects: Law.; International law.; Trade.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; International economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; International Economic Law, Trade Law.; Regional/Spatial Science.; International Economics.

This book is highly topical. The shift from the multilateral WTO negotiations to bilateral and regional Free Trade Agreements has been going on for some time, but it is bound to accelerate after the WTO Doha round of negotiations is now widely regarded as a failure. However, there is a particular re...