WIPO : appraising the first 50 years and looking beyond / Sam Ricketson. The foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization : what came before / Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson -- The role of WIPO as an international organization / Alison Duxbury -- WIPO : a brief institutional history and overview / Gillian Davies and Sam Ricketson -- WIPO : a view from inside and outside the tent / Mihály Ficsor -- Copyright and related rights : WIPO's role in formulating international norms in this area / Sam Ricketson and Tanya Aplin -- WIPO's role in procedural and substantive patent law harmonization / Rochelle Dreyfuss and Jerome Reichman -- Non-conventional marks and the obstacle of functionality : WIPOs role in fleshing out the telle quelle rule / Graeme Dinwoodie and Annette Kur -- Making a place for place-based IP : WIPO and geographical indications / Dev Gangjee -- Protection of industrial designs : a twenty-first-century challenge for WIPO / Antoon Quaedvlieg -- WIPO, development cooperation and the Development Agenda / Michael Blakeney -- Education, training and technical assistance programs / Raquel Xalabarder -- The relationship between WIPO and the WTO / Daniel Gervais -- Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions / Silke von Lewinski -- WIPO and IP dispute resolution / Andrew F. Christie -- WIPOs role in collating and publishing data and statistics, and in economic analysis / David Lindsay -- Muddling through successfully : financing and governing WIPO / Ian Heath -- WIPO and treaty interpretation / Susy Frankel -- Caught in the middle : WIPO and emerging economies / Peter K. Yu -- Nothing for us, without us : growth and diversity in observers participation in WIPO / Antony Taubman -- Modernizing copyright and saving the planet? : speculations on WIPO's future role / Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall, Jane C. Ginsburg and Jukka Liedes -- WIPO : appraising the first 50 years and looking beyond / Sam Ricketson.
Summary:
"2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishment of WIPO. This unique and wide-ranging Research Handbook brings together eminent scholars and experts who assess WIPO's role and programmes during its first half-century, as well as discussing the challenges facing the organization as it enters its second"--Back cover.
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