The Global Regime for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

In The Global Regime for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, Xavier Seuba offers a comprehensive description of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The book analyzes multilateral, plurilateral, and bilateral treaties, and their national implementation, along with civil, border, and criminal enforcement. The book also explores the interface between the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the norms regulating international trade, competition, and human rights, as well as the conceptual and systemic aspects of enforcement, while illustrating the importance of these rights with examples in litigation. The book should be read by anyone interested in how intellectual property rights are being enforced around the world, and how these efforts relate to other legal regimes.

Introduction; Part I. Foundations of Intellectual Property Enforcement: 1. Intellectual property enforcement, from concept to practice; 2. Intellectual property enforcement and human rights; 3. The economics of intellectual property enforcement; Part II. The International Architecture for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: 4. International normative architecture for the enforcement of intellectual property; 5. International bodies for the enforcement of intellectual property rights; 6. Transplantation of the law as a technique to foster new enforcement regulations; Part III. Civil Enforcement: 7. Measures for the preservation of evidence; 8. Interim injunctions; 9. The award of damages; Part IV. Border Measures: 10. The global regime on border measures; 11. Border measures and free trade; 12. Border measures and human rights; Part V. Criminal Enforcement: 13. The global regime on criminal enforcement; 14. Criminal enforcement and human rights; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Xavier Seuba, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer at the Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) of the Université de Strasbourg. At CEIPI he is Academic Coordinator and Judicial Training Manager, and coordinates the CEIPI-BETA Project in the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property. He teaches courses in various European and American universities in international intellectual property law, international health law, and international economic law. His research is focused on intellectual property enforcement, intellectual property and health, and the economics of intellectual property. Seuba has advised national governments and has also been a consultant for several international organizations.