Synopsis
In this lecture, Professor Susy Frankel will present key findings from her recent book “Test Tubes for Global Intellectual Property Issues: Small Market Economies.” In her book, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015, Professor Frankel analyses how small market economies provide a valuable insight into how a country might balance competing interests in the global intellectual property framework. The book uses examples from the small market economies of Singapore, New Zealand and Israel. As developed countries that are also net-importers of intellectual property, these small market economies share similar concerns with some developing countries. This duality of developed and developing country interests has resulted in some innovative ways of calibrating national intellectual property laws so that these laws both support national economic and social needs and honour international commitments. In this lecture, Professor Frankel will discuss mechanisms through which small market economies can approach treaty interpretation to both assist in national implementation of international obligations and utilisation of flexibilities, and effective dispute resolution. She will also highlight the links between trade and innovation; when and how patent and copyright law can be flexible; the importance of trade marks to small businesses; parallel importing; and the protection of traditional knowledge. Professor Irene Calboli will introduce the speaker and moderate the debate following the lecture.
Speaker's Profile
Susy Frankel is a Professor of Law and the Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, at Victoria University of Wellington. She is also the Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ), and the President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). She has been a Hauser Global visitor to New York University Law School, a visiting Professor at the University of Haifa, University of Iowa, University of Western Ontario and Fellow of Clare Hall and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge (UK). She has published widely on the nexus between international intellectual property and trade law, and particularly focusing on international treaty interpretation and the protection of traditional knowledge. Her most recent book "Test -tubes for Global Intellectual Property Issues: the Small Markey Economy" has been published by Cambridge University Press in June 2015.
Programme
2.30pm - Registration
3.00pm - Lecture
4.30pm - End of event
Public CPD Points – 1.5 points
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Last updated on 23 Jan 2017 .
