Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property: Volume 2(Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property)

The fields of intellectual property have broadened and deepened in so many ways that commentators struggle to keep up with the ceaseless rush of developments and hot topics. Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property is a series that is designed to help authors escape this rush. It creates a forum for authors who wish to more deeply question, investigate and reflect upon the evolving themes and principles of the discipline. This second volume of Kritika, like the first, sees its contributors writing on core themes and concepts of intellectual property. The essays deal with the current limits of economic knowledge and approaches to intellectual property; China's approach to innovation and intellectual property; a functional and constructivist account of intellectual property rights; the evolution of the essential facilities doctrine, including in the Chinese context; the emergence of multi-layered IP protection for designed objects; the changing balance of the interests of trade mark proprietors, competitors and consumers; the interaction between place and non-agricultural geographical indications; and the trajectory of increased protection for intellectual property and some of its likely consequences. With contributions from: Giuseppe Colangelo; Vincenzo Di Cataldo; Susy Frankel; Johanna Gibson; Keith E. Maskus; Roberto Pardolesi; Thomas Riis; Jens Schovsbo; Ken Shao and Michel Vivant

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. Cognitive dissonance in the economics of patent protection, trade and development Keith E. Maskus 2. Taobao, WeChat and Xiaomi: how innovation flourishes in China’s ‘fertile land of intellectual property piracy’ Ken Shao 3. Intellectual property rights and their functions: determining their legitimate ‘enclosure’ Michel Vivant 4. Intellectual property, standards, and antitrust: a new life for the essential facilities doctrine? Some insights from the Chinese regulation Giuseppe Colangelo and Roberto Pardolesi 5. Design law: caught between chairs? Jens Schovsbo and Thomas Riis 6. The development of trade marks into common names of products: a strong push towards a purely objective view of language evolution Vincenzo Di Cataldo 7. Geographies of taste, fashion, tradition and place Johanna Gibson 8. It’s raining carrots: the trajectory of increased intellectual property protection Susy Frankel Index

About the Author :
Edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy, Hanns Ullrich, Professor Emeritus, Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany and Peter Drahos, Professor Emeritus, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Professor Emeritus, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Review :
‘This is a very impressive collection of essays which feels relevant and comprehensive. The book deals with the spectrum of IP rights, drawing useful comparisons between them and keeping the material fresh and varied.’