Contents:
Introduction: 50 years of the World Intellectual Property
Organization
Sam Ricketson
1. The foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization:
what came before
Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson
2. The Role of WIPO as an International Organization
Alison Duxbury
3. WIPO: a brief institutional history and overview
Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson
4. WIPO: a view from inside and outside the tent
Dr. Mihály Ficsor
5. Copyright and related rights: WIPO’s role in formulating
international norms in this area
Sam Ricketson and Tanya Aplin
6. WIPO’s Role in Procedural and Substantive Patent Law
Harmonization
Rochelle Dreyfuss and Jerome Reichman
7. Non-Conventional Marks and the Obstacle of Functionality –
WIPO’s Role in Fleshing Out the Telle Quelle Rule
Graeme Dinwoodie and Annette Kur
8. Making a Place for Place-Based IP: WIPO and Geographical
Indications
Dev Gangjee
9. Protection of Industrial Designs: a Twenty first Century
Challenge for WIPO
Antoon Quaedvlieg
10. WIPO, Development Cooperation and the Development Agenda
Michael Blakeney
11. Education and Training, Technical Assistance Programs
Raquel Xalabarder
12. The Relationship between WIPO and the WTODaniel Gervais
13. Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional
Cultural Expressions
Silke von Lewinski
14. WIPO and IP Dispute Resolution
Andrew F. Christie
15. WIPO’s Role in Collating and Publishing Data and Statistics,
and in Economic Analysis
David Lindsay
16. Muddling Through Successfully: financing and governing WIP
OIan Heath
17. WIPO and Treaty Interpretation
Susy Frankel
18. Caught in the Middle: WIPO and Emerging Economies
Peter K Yu
19. ‘Nothing for us, without us’: growth and diversity in
observers' participation in WIPO.
Antony Taubman
20. Modernizing Copyright and Saving the Planet? Speculations on
WIPO’s Future Role
Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall, Jane C Ginsburg and Jukka
Liedes
21. WIPO – appraising the first 50 years
Sam Ricketson
Index
Edited by Sam Ricketson, Emeritus Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
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