Jacques de Werra

The need to harmonize intellectual property licensing law : a European perspective

1. EU competition law and parallel trade in pharmaceuticals: lessons to be learned for WTO/TRIPS? 3 Josef Drexl 2. Cross-border licensing in the absence of a choice of law: is there a way forward? 25 Paul Torremans 3. Emerging escape clauses? Online exhaustion, consent and European copyright law 38 Guido Westkamp 4. An American tale: the unclear territorial application of the first sale rule in United States copyright law (and its impact on international trade) 67 Irene Calboli 5. The need to harmonize intellectual property licensing law: a European perspective 90 Jacques de Werra 6. Commercialization of genetic resources: leveraging ex situ genetic resources to shape downstream IP protection 111 Dana Beldiman 7. Managing online music rights in the European Digital Single Market: current scenarios and future prospects 142 Giuseppe Mazziotti

Patents and Trade Secrets in the Internet Age

Analysis of the challenges faced by the laws of patents and of trade secrets in the age of Internet and big data, particularly in terms of increased accessibility of massive amounts of data (big data), and of FRAND licensing conditions from a global perspective.

Managing the risks of intellectual property interdependence in the age of open innovation

As innovation processes become increasingly collaborative, new relationships among players in the innovation space emerge. These developments demand new legal structures that allow horizontally integrated, open and shared use of intellectual property (IP). This book examines the fundamental issues regarding the collaborative use of IP and discusses emerging trends including: the interpretation of FRAND terms in the context of standard essential patents; secondary liability of technology providers; contractual arrangements in trademark law, and the treatment of IP issues in specific emerging industries.