TRIPS plus 20

Part I. Revisiting the Policy Rationale of TRIPS

1. The Origins and Structure of the TRIPS Agreement
William Cornish, Kathleen Liddell

2. The Concept of Trade-Relatedness of Intellectual Property Rights in Times of Post-TRIPS Bilateralism
Josef Drexl

3. The Political Foundations of TRIPS Revisited
Hanns Ullrich

Part II. TRIPS as a Legal Framework: Which Geometry?

4. From Minimum Standards to Maximum Rules
Annette Kur

5. IP and Trade in a Post-TRIPS Environment
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

6. Ways Out of the Trap of Article 1(1) TRIPS
Reto M. Hilty

Part III. Systems Challenges

7. The Proportionality Principle in the TRIPS Agreement
Max Wallot

8. The Commodification of Internet Intermediary Safe Harbors: Avoiding Premature Harmonization Around a Suboptimal Standard
Seth Ericsson

9. Regulatory Innovation and the Institutional Design of the TRIPS Agreement
Rupprecht Podszun, Benjamin Franz

10. Intellectual Property Harmonization in the Name of Trade
Matthias Lamping

Part IV. TRIPS and Countervailing Principles

11. Revisiting the Principle of Technological Neutrality in Patent Protection in the Age of 3D Printing Technology and Cloud Computing
Nari Lee

12. Article 27(3)(b) TRIPS and Plant Variety Protection in Developing Countries
Christoph Antons

13. TRIPS and Climate Change in the International Economic Order
Agnieszka A. Machnicka

14. Establishing Conformity Between TRIPS and Human Rights: Hierarchy in International Law, Human Rights Obligations of the WTO and Extraterritorial State Obligations Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Klaus D. Beiter

Part V. Exclusivity, Access and Innovation

15. From Transfer of Technology to Innovation Through Access
Peter Picht

16. TRIPS and Competition Rules: From Transfer of Technology to Innovation Policy
Mor Bakhoum, Beatriz Conde Gallego

17. How Public Is the Public Domain? The Perpetual Protection of Inventions, Designs and Works by Trademarks
Kaya Köklü, Sylvie Nérisson

18. Dependent Patents Under Art. 31 TRIPS: Lessons from Copyright Law
Matthias Leistner

Part VI. From Enforcing to Enhancing TRIPS

19. The WTO/TRIPS Dispute Settlement Mechanism: Experiences and Perspectives
Silke Lewinski

20. Merging ACTA into TRIPS: Does TRIPS-Based IP Enforcement Need Reform?
Thomas Jaeger

21. Towards a Balanced International Legal Framework for Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Christophe Geiger

22. TRIPS and Consumer Protection
Ansgar Ohly

23. TRIPS and Corporate Social Responsibility: Unethical Equals Unfair Business Practices?
Frauke Henning-Bodewig

24. Enhancing TRIPS: Trade Secrets and Reverse Engineering
Gintarė Surblytė

Keywords: Law, International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Trade, Economic Growth, Innovation/Technology Management