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Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism: Hedging Exclusive Rights

Jonathan Griffiths and Tuomas Mylly

Abstract

The constitutionalisation of intellectual property law is often framed as a benign and progressive integration of intellectual property with fundamental rights. Yet this is not a full or even an adequate picture of the ongoing constitutionalisation processes affecting IP. This collection of essays, written by international experts and covering a range of different areas of intellectual property law, takes a broader approach to the process. Drawing on constitutional theory, and particularly on ideas of ‘new constitutionalism’, the chapters engage with the complex array of contemporary legal con ... More

Keywords: constitutionalisation, intellectual property law, intellectual property, fundamental rights, constitutional theory, new constitutionalism, intellectual property law-making, human rights law, investment treaties, private ordering

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2021 Print ISBN-13: 9780198863168
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2021 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198863168.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Jonathan Griffiths, editor
Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London

Tuomas Mylly, editor
Professor of Commercial Law, University of Turku

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

List of Contributors

1 The Transformation of Global Intellectual Property Protection

Tuomas Mylly and Jonathan Griffiths*

Part I Systemic and Conceptual Issues

2 Effects of Combined Hedging

Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan*

3 The New Constitutional Architecture of Intellectual Property

Tuomas Mylly*

Part II International and Transnational Intellectual Property Norms as ‘Constitutional Hedges’ of Intellectual Property

4 From Flexible Balancing Tool to Quasi-Constitutional Straitjacket—How the EU Cultivates the Constraining Function of the Three-Step Test

Martin Senftleben

5 Hedging (into) Property?—Invisible Trade Secrets and International Trade in Goods

Nari Lee*

Part III Human Rights Hedging Intellectual Property Rights

6 A Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm for Intellectual Property Rights in Europe?

Aurora Plomer

Part IV International Investment Treaty Protection of Intellectual Property

7 Hedging Bets with BITS

Rochelle C Dreyfuss

8 The Second Transformation of the International Intellectual Property Regime

Peter K Yu*

Part V Informal Measures and Private Regulation as Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property

9 Technical Assistance as a Hedge to Intellectual Property Exclusivity

Daniel Acquah

10 Too Small to Matter? On the Copyright Directive’s Bias in Favour of Big Right-Holders

Martin Husovec and João Pedro Quintais

Part VI Counter-Narratives

11 Multilevel Constitutionalism and the Propertisation of EU Copyright

Caterina Sganga

12 The Revitalisation of the Object and Purpose of the TRIPS Agreement

Christophe Geiger and Luc Desaunettes-Barbero

13 Copyright, Human Rights, and the Social Function of Property in Brazil

Allan Rocha de Souza

14 Hedge or Counterweight? New Constitutionalism and the Role of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Intellectual Property Litigation

Graham Reynolds*

End Matter

Index