Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project

This book examines the parameters and impacts of improving intellectual property globally, exploring its relation to innovation, public health, and international law. It suggests that intellectual property must continually re-assess its assumptions, doctrines, policies, and rationales against evolving political economies, social demands, and technologies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 540 pages
Publication date: 14 March 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

The global project of improving intellectual property necessitates a rigorous and multifaceted assessment of its parameters and consequences. This innovative book delves into the meaning of enhancing intellectual property on a global scale, examining diverse aspects and viewpoints of the international intellectual property debate. It also considers the potential for reform in this domain.

Building upon the foundational insights of Rochelle Dreyfuss, an esteemed international team of intellectual property scholars addresses some of the most pressing concerns surrounding the role of intellectual property laws in promoting innovation. The book explores the evolving boundaries and balance of intellectual property, its growing interconnectedness with other global public goods like public health, its re-shaping of traditional categories and concepts, its contradictory and incomplete implementation in international law, and its shifting institutions. While the individual contributions cover a wide range of topics, they all share a common theme: the need for intellectual property to continuously re-examine its fundamental assumptions, doctrines, policies, and rationales in light of evolving political economies, social demands, and technological advancements.

Improving Intellectual Property is a thought-provoking and accessible work that will serve as an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students of international intellectual property law. Its exploration of how intellectual property law can foster innovation in conjunction with national, regional, and global policy goals will also be of interest to practitioners and policymakers.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035310852