syllabus

Class 1 (1/8):  Overview of International Intellectual Property Rights

Discussion:  Problem Set 1

Class 2 (1/10):  The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

Readings: 

• Paul Edward Geller, Copyright History and the Future:  What's Culture Got to Do With It?, 47 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 209 (2000) Read Part I.A only

• Samuel Ricketson, The Birth of the Berne Union, 11 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 9 (1986) Available as handout

• House Report of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, H.R. Rep. No. 609, 100th Cong. (1988)

Further Readings: 

(Note:  Further readings are provided for reference purposes and will not be discussed in class.)

• Sam Ricketson, The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 1886-1986 (1987)

• WIPO, Guide to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Act 1971) (1978)

• Symposium, Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Berne Convention, 11 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1986)

• Symposium, Fundamentals of International Copyright: The Impact of Berne, 8 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (1989)

Note: There will be no class on 1/15 (Martin Luther King Day).

Class 3 (1/17):  Protection of Foreign Authors in the United States

Due:  Problem Set 2 

Readings: 

• Peter K. Yu, The Copyright Divide, 25 Cardozo L. Rev. 331 (2003) Read Part I only

• Barbara A. Ringer, The Role of the United States in International Copyright—Past, Present, and Future, 56 Geo. L.J. 1050, 1054-62 (1968) (available on HeinOnline--In order to use the service from off campus, you need to configure your browser to use the MSU Proxy Server)

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Sept. 9, 1886, revised at Paris July 24, 1971, 828 U.N.T.S. 221 Skim

Further Readings:

• Universal Copyright Convention, revised at Paris July 24, 1971, 25 U.S.T. 1341, 943 U.N.T.S. 178

• Bruce Bugbee, Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law (1967)

• Lyman Ray Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective (1968)

• J. Thomas McCarthy, Intellectual Property—America’s Overlooked Export, 20 U. Dayton L. Rev. 809 (1995)

• Marci Hamilton, Should U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Change To Fit World Norms?, FindLaw’s WRIT: Legal Commentary, May 24, 2001

Class 4 (1/22): Protection of Moral Rights and Neighboring Rights

Readings:

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, “Author-Stories:” Narrative’s Implications for Moral Rights and Copyright’s Joint Authorship Doctrine, 75 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2001) Read Part II only

• Turner Entertainment Co. v. Huston, CA Versailles, civ. ch., December 19, 1994, translated in Ent. L. Rep., Mar. 1995, at 3

• Gilliam v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 538 F.2d 14 (2d Cir. 1976)

Further Readings:

• Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Resale Right for the Benefit of the Author of an Original Work of Art, 2001 O.J. (forthcoming)

• Visual Artists Rights Act, 17 U.S.C. § 106A (2000)

• California Art Preservation Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 987 (West 1998)

• New York Artists' Authorship Rights Act, N.Y. Arts & Cult. Aff. Law §§ 14.51-14.59 (McKinney 1984)

• Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway: From Guttenberg to the Celestial Jukebox 165-96 (1994)

• Thomas F. Cotter, Pragmatism, Economics, and the Droit Moral, 76 N.C. L. Rev. 1 (1997)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, A Tale of Two Copyrights: Literary Property in Revolutionary France and America, 64 Tul. L. Rev. 991 (1990)

• Herman Cohen Jehoram, The Nature of Neighboring Rights of Performing Artists, Phonogram Producers and Broadcasting Organizations, 15 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 75 (1990)

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Copyright and the Moral Right: Is an American Marriage Possible?, 38 Vand. L. Rev. 1

• Neil Netanel, Alienability Restrictions and the Enhancement of Author Autonomy in United States and Continental Copyright Law, 12 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (1994)

• Geri J. Yonover, The Precarious Balance: Moral Rights, Parody, and Fair Use, 14 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 79 (1994)

Note: There will be no class on 1/24 (class moved).

Class 5 (1/29):  Protection of Copyrights in the European Union

Due:  Problem Set 3

Readings:

• Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the Legal Protection of Databases, 1996 O.J. (L 77) 20 Skim

• Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society (June 2001) Skim

• Peter K. Yu, Evolving Protection of Databases, Gigalaw.com (Dec. 2000)

• Peter K. Yu, An Introduction to the EU Information Society Directive, Gigalaw.com (Nov. 2001)

Further Readings:

• Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)

• Yochai Benkler, Constitutional Bounds of Database Protection: The Role of Judicial Review in the Creation and Definition of Private Rights in Information, 15 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 535 (2000)

• Jan Corbet, The Law of the EEC and Intellectual Property, 13 J.L. & Com. 327 (1994)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, Copyright, Common Law, and Sui Generis Protection of Databases in the United States and Abroad, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 151 (1997)

• Marci A. Hamilton, A Response to Professor Benkler, 15 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 605 (2000)

• P.B. Hugenholtz, Why the Copyright Directive Is Unimportant, and Possibly Invalid, 11 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 499 (2000)

• Malla Pollack, The Right to Know?: Delimiting Database Protection at the Juncture of the Commerce Clause, the Intellectual Property Clause, and the First Amendment, 17 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 47 (1999)

• J.H. Reichman & Paul F. Uhlir, Database Protection at the Crossroads: Recent Developments and Their Impact on Science and Technology, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 793 (1999)

Class 6 (1/31):  Conflict-of-Laws and Choice-of-Law Issues in International Copyright

Readings:

• Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, 153 F.3d 82 (2d Cir. 1998)

• Bridgeman Art Library Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 25 F. Supp. 2d 421 (S.D.N.Y. 1998), aff’d on reconsideration, 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)

• Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communications Co., 24 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 1994) (en banc)

• Boosey & Hawkes Music Pubs. v. The Walt Disney Co. 145 F.3d 481 (2d Cir. 1998)

• Peter K. Yu, Conflict of Laws Issues in International Copyright Cases, Gigalaw.com (Apr. 2001)

Further Readings:

• Eugen Ulmer, Intellectual Property Rights and the Conflict of Laws (1978)

• Graeme W. Austin, Domestic Laws and Foreign Rights: Choice of Law in Transnational Copyright Infringement Litigation, 23 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1999)

• Graeme W. Austin, Social Policy Choices and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace, 79 Or. L. Rev. 575 (2000)

• Curtis A. Bradley, Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Globalism, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 505 (1997)

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, International Intellectual Property Litigation: A Vehicle for Resurgent Comparativist Thought, 49 Am. J. Comp. L. 429 (2001)

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, A New Copyright Order: Why National Courts Should Create Global Norms, 149 U. Penn. L. Rev. 469 (2000)

• Paul Edward Geller, Harmonizing Copyright-Contract Conflicts Analyses, 25 Copyright 49 (1989)

• Jane C. Ginsburg: Copyright Without Borders? Choice of Forum and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace, 15 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 153 (1997)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, Extraterritoriality and Multiterritoriality in Copyright Infringement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 587 (1997)

• David R. Johnson & David G. Post, Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367 (1996)

• William Patry, Choice of Law and International Copyright, 48 Am. J. Comp. L. 383 (2000)

Class 7 (2/5):  WIPO Internet Treaties and Digital Agenda

Readings:

• Currents and Crosscurrents in the International Intellectual Property Regime, 38 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 323 (2004) Read Part III only

• Anticircumvention and Anti-anticircumvention Read Part II only

• WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted Dec. 20, 1996, WIPO Doc. CRNR/DC/94 (Dec. 23, 1996) Skim and Bring to Class

• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted Dec. 20, 1996, WIPO Doc. CRNR/DC/95 (Dec. 23, 1996) Skim and Bring to Class

Further Readings:

• Mihály Ficsor, Copyright for the Digital Era: The WIPO "Internet" Treaties, 21 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 197 (1997)

• Neil W. Netanel, The Next Round: The Impact of the WIPO Copyright Treaty on TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 441 (1997) 

• Jörg Reinbothe et al., The New WIPO Treaties: A First Résumé, 19 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 171 (1997)

• J.H. Reichman & Pamela Samuelson, Intellectual Property Rights in Data?, 50 Vand. L. Rev. 51 (1997)

• Pamela Samuelson, The U.S. Digital Agenda at WIPO, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 369 (1997)

Class 8 (2/7):  The TRIPs Agreement

Readings: 

• Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Apr. 15, 1994, Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1C, Legal Instruments—Results of the Uruguay Round vol. 31, 33 I.L.M. 1197 (1994) Skim and Bring to Class

• TRIPS and Its Discontents, 10 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2005) Read Parts I and II

• Ruth L. Gana (Okediji), Has Creativity Died in the Third World? Some Implications of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property,  24 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 109, 116-44 (1995) Read Part III

• Peter K. Yu, Toward a Nonzero-sum Approach to Resolving Global Intellectual Property Disputes: What We Can Learn from Mediators, Business Strategists, and International Relations Theorists, 70 U. Cin. L. Rev. 569  (2002) Read Parts I and III

Further Readings:

• Frederick M. Abbott, The WTO TRIPS Agreement and Global Economic Development, in Public Policy and Global Technological Integration 39 (Frederick M. Abbott & David J. Gerber eds., 1997)

• A. Jane Bradley, Intellectual Property Rights, Investment and trade in Services in the Uruguay Round: Laying the Foundation, 23 Stan. J. Int’l L. 57 (1987)

• Vincent Chiappetta, The Desirability of Agreeing to Disagree: The WTO, TRIPs, International IPR Exhaustion and a Few Other Things, 21 Mich. J. Int’l L. 333 (2000)

• Carlos M. Correa, Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO, and Development Countries: The TRIPS Agreement and Policy (2001)

• Daniel Gervais, The TRIPs Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis (1998)

• Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (Michael B. Wallerstein et al. eds., 1993)

• Tara Kalagher Giunta & Lily H. Shang, Ownership of Information in a Global Economy, 27 Geo. Wash. J. Int’l L. & Econ. 327 (1993)

• Marci A. Hamilton, The TRIPS Agreement: Imperialistic, Outdated, and Overprotective, 29 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 613 (1996)

• Intellectual Property Rights: Global Consensus, Global Conflict? (R. Michael Gadbaw & Timothy J. Richards eds., 1988)

• Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets (Clarissa Long ed., 2000)

• John H. Jackson & Alan O. Sykes, Implementing the Uruguay Round (1997)

• Keith E. Maskus, Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy (2002)

• Charles R. McManis, Intellectual Property and International Mergers and Acquisitions, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1283 (1998)

• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Asserting Copyright's Democratic Principles in the Global Arena, 51 Vand. L. Rev. 217 (1998)

• Ruth Okediji, Toward an International Fair Use Doctrine, 39 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 75 (2000)

• J.H. Reichman, From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 11 (1997)

• J.H. Reichman, Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade After the GATT’s Uruguay Round, 20 Brook. J. Int’l L. 75 (1993)

• Michael P. Ryan, Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property (1998)

• Symposium, The Inaugural Engelberg Conference on the Culture and Economic of Participation in an International Intellectual Property Regime, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (1997)

• Symposium, Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property (pts. 1 & 2), 22 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 223, 689 (1989)

• The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Arthur Dunkel (Jagdish Bhagwati & Mathias Hirsch eds., 1998)

Class 9 (2/12):  WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Readings:

• Understanding the WTO—Settling Disputes

• The Panel Process: A Flowchart

• Fairness in Music Licensing Act, 17 U.S.C. § 110(5) (2000)

• Richard Owens, TRIPS and the Fairness in Music Arbitration: The Repercussions, 25 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 49 (2003)

Further Readings:

• Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, Dec. 15, 1993, 33 I.L.M. 112 (1994)

• United States - Section 110(5) of US Copyright Act - Report of the Panel, WT/DS160/R, June 15, 2000: Part 1 & Part 2

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, The Development and Incorporation of International Norms in the Formation of Copyright Law, 62 Ohio St. L.J. 733 (2001)

• Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Two Achievements of the Uruguay Round: Putting TRIPS and Dispute Settlement Together, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 275 (1997)

• Gail E. Evans, Lawmaking Under the Trade Constitution: A Study in Legislating by the World Trade Organization (2000)

• Paul Edward Geller, Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace: Impact of TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 29 Int'l Law. 99 (1995)

• Laurence R. Helfer, World Music on a U.S. Stage:  A Berne/Trips and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act, 80 B.U. L. Rev. 93 (2000)

• John H. Jackson, The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations (2000)

• John O. McGinnis & Mark L. Movesian, The World Trade Constitution, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 511 (2000)

• Neil W. Netanel, The Next Round: The Impact of the WIPO Copyright Treaty on TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 441 (1997)

• David Palmeter & Petros C. Mavroidis, Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization: Practice and Procedure (1999)

• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, The GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System : International Law, International Organizations, and Dispute (1997)

• Symposium, Compliance with the TRIPs Agreement, 29 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 363 (1996)

• Symposium, The Decline of Nations State and Its Effects on Constitutional and International Economic Law, 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 903 (1996)

• Friedl Weiss, Improving WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures: Issues and Lessons from the Practice of Other International Courts and Tribunals (2000)

Class 10 (2/14):  Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Foreign Countries: The Case of China

Readings:

•   Office of USTR, 2006 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: People's Republic of China (2006) Read Section on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection"

• Peter K. Yu, Four Common Misconceptions About Copyright Piracy, 26 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. (2003) Read Part II only

• Peter K. Yu, Still Dissatisfied After All These Years: Intellectual Property, Post-WTO China, and the Avoidable Cycle of Futility, 34 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 143 ( 2005) Read Part II

• Peter K. Yu, From Pirates to Partners (Episode II): Protecting Intellectual Property in Post-WTO China, 55 Am. U. L. Rev. 901 (2006) Read Part IV

Further Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, From Pirates to Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-first Century, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 131 (2000)

• Peter K. Yu, Piracy, Prejudice, and Perspectives: An Attempt to Use Shakespeare to Reconfigure the U.S-China Intellectual Property Debate, 19 B.U. Int’l L.J. 1 (2001)

• Symposium, China and the WTO: Progress, Perils, and Prospects, 17 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2003)

• Andrew Mertha, The Politics of Piracy:  Intellectual Property in Contemporary China (2005)

• William P. Alford, To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (1995)

• William P. Alford, Making the World Safe for What? Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Foreign Economic Policy in the Post-European Cold War World, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 135 (1997)

• Jeffrey W. Berkman, Intellectual Property Rights in the P.R.C.: Impediments to Protection and the Need for the Rule of Law, 15 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 1 (1996)

• Glenn R. Butterton, Pirates, Dragons and U.S. Intellectual Property Rights in China: Problems and Prospects of Chinese Enforcement, 38 Ariz. L. Rev. 1081 (1996)

• Albert H.Y. Chen, An Introduction to the Legal System of the People’s Republic of China (1998)

• Patrick H. Hu, "Mickey Mouse" in China: Legal and Cultural Implications in Protecting U.S. Copyrights, 14 B.U. Int’l L.J. 81 (1996)

• Chinese Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Mark A. Cohen et al. eds., 1999)

• Peter Howard Corne, Foreign Investment in China: The Administrative Legal System (1997)

• Peter Feng, Intellectual Property in China (1997)

• Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in China (Mary L. Riley ed., 1997)

• Symposium, Intellectual Property in East Asia, 13 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 1 (1994)

• Susan Tiefenbrun, Piracy of Intellectual Property in China and the Former Soviet Union and Its Effects upon International Trade: A Comparison, 46 Buff. L. Rev. 1 (1998)

Class 11 (2/19):  Overview of Trademark Law

Due:  Paper Topic (up to 100 words)

Class 12 (2/21):  Language and Territoriality Issues in Trademark Law

Readings:

• Person's Co., Ltd. v. Christman, 900 F.2d 1565 (Fed. Cir. 1990)

• Buti v. Impressa Perosa, S.R.L., 139 F. 3d 98 (2d Cir. 1998)

• Otokoyama Co. Ltd. v. Wine of Japan Import, Inc., 175 F.3d 266 (2d Cir. 1999)

• Vanity Fair Mills v. T. Eaton Co., 234 F.2d 633 (2d Cir. 1956)

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Trademarks and Territory: Detaching Trademark Law from the Nation-State, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 885 (2004) (Read Part II only)

Further Readings:

• Mother's Restaurants v. Mother's Other Kitchen, Inc., 218 U.S.P.Q. 1046 (T.T.A.B. 1983)

• James A. Carney, Setting Sights on Trademark Piracy: The Need for Greater Protection Against Imitation of Foreign Trademarks, 81 Trademark Rep. 30 (1991)

• Richard Thompson Ford, Beyond Borders: A Partial Response to Richard Briffault, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1173 (1996)

• Thomas J. Hoffman & Susan E. Brownstone, Protection of Rights Acquired by International Reputation Without Use or Registration, 71 Trademark Rep. 1 (1981)

• William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, The Economics of Trademark Law, 78 Trademark Rep. 267 (1986)

• Beth Fulkerson, Note, Theft by Territorialism: A Case for Revising TRIPS to Protect Trademarks from National Market Foreclosure, 17 Mich. J. Int'l L. 801 (1996)

Class 13 (2/26):  The Paris Convention and Protection of Well-Known Marks

Readings:

• Lanham Act § 44, 15 U.S.C. § 1126 (2000)

• McDonald's Corp. v. Joburgers Drive-Inn Restaurant (Pty) Ltd., 1997 S. African L. Rep. 1 (1996)

• McDonald's Corp. v. McDonald's Corp. Ltd., 1997 FSR 200 (Supreme Court 1996 (Jamaica) (available outside Sue Nelson's office)

• Yuen v. McDonald's Corporation, 2001 All ER 384

Further Readings (Paris Convention):

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Mar. 20, 1883, amended October 2, 1979, 21 U.S.T. 1538, 828 U.N.T.S. 305

• G.H.C. Bodenhausen, Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1968)

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property from 1883 to 1983 (1983)

• John B. Pegram, Trademark Law Revision: Section 44, 78 Trademark Rep. 141 (1988)

• Joanna Schmidt-Szalewski, The International Protection of Trademarks after the TRIPs Agreement, 9 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 189 (1998)

• Patricia V. Norton, Note, The Effect of Article 10bis of the Paris Convention on American Unfair Comeptition Law, 68 Fordham L. Rev. 225 (1999)

Further Readings (Well-known Marks):

• Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Well-Known Marks

• George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society (3d ed. 2000)

• Frederick W. Mostert, Well-Known and Famous Marks: Is Harmony Possible in the Global Village?, 86 Trademark Rep. 103 (1996)

• Charles Webster, The McDonald's Case: South Africa Joins the Global Village, 86 Trademark Rep. 576 (1986)

• World Trademark Symposium: Famous Marks, 82 Trademark Rep. 989 (1992)

• Legal Wrangle: Jamaica (containing legal documents on the Jamaica case)

• McChina U.K. v. McDonald's USA

Note: There will be no classes on 2/28 (Class Moved), 3/5 and 3/7 (Spring Break).

Class 14 (3/12): Community Trademarks in the European Union

Due:  Problem Set 4 

Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, The Basics of Community Trademarks in the European Union, GigaLaw.com, Nov. 2000

• Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community Trade Mark Skim and Bring to Class

• Frequently Asked Questions Concerning the Community Trade Mark System

Further Readings:

• Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 of 13 December 1995 Implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community Trade Mark

• First Directive 89/104/EEC of the Council, of 21 December 1988, to Approximate the Laws of the Member States Relating to Trade Marks

• Baila Celedonia, Trademarks in the European Communities from an American Perspective, 18 Brook. J. Int'l L. 751 (1992)

Web Resources:

• OAMI -- Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market

Class 15 (3/14): The Madrid System and Protection of Geographical Indications

Readings:

• The Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and the Protocol Relating to That Agreement: Objectives, Main Features, Advantages

• What is a Geographical Indication?

• TRIPs Agreement arts. 22-24

• 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (2000)

Further Readings (Madrid System):

• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement

• Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement Concerning
  the International Registration of Marks and the Protocol Relating to that Agreement

• The Madrid Arrangement--BIRPI Proposed Changes, 60 Trademark Reporter 129 (1970)

• Should the United States Adhere to the Madrid Arrangement?, 56 Trademark Rep. 289 (1966)

• David B. Allen, Protection of Property Identity Abroad: Some New Light on an Old Problem?, 55 Trademark Reporter 707 (1965)

• David B. Allen, Report on Committee of Experts for the Revision of the Madrid Agreement, 60 Trademark Rep. 163 (1970)

• Peter M. Brody, Protection of Geographical Indications in teh Wake of TRIPS: Existing United States Law s and the Administration's Proposed Legislation, 84 Trademark Rep. 520 (1994)

• Carlo Cotrone, Comment, The United States and the Madrid Protocol: A Time to Decline, A Time to Accede,  4 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 75 (2000)

• Anthony R. DeSimone, United States Adhernece to the Agreement of Madrid, 56 Trademark Rep. 320 (1966)

• Gabriel M. Frayne, A Few More Thoughts on Possible United States Adherence to the Madrid Arrangement, 57 Trademark Rep. 447 (1967) 

•  Maria Guerra, The Rocky Road of the U.S. Accession to the Madrid Protocol: Could This Be the Year?, 11 DePaul J. Art & Ent. Law 525 (2001)

• Thomas Hebling, Teh Term 'Swiss' on Trade Goods: A Dnomination of Origin and Its Legal Protection in the United Kingdom, 19 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 51 (1997)

• Andrew Inglis & Joel Barry, "Budweiser": The Decision of Solomon, 20 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 320 (1998)

• Thorstein Klein, Madrid Trademark Agreement vs. Madrid Protocol, 12 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 484 (2000)

• Marshall Leaffer, Appellations of Origin and Geographic Indications in U.S. Law After NAFTA and GATT, 2 International Intellectual Property Law & Policy 45-1 (Hugh Hansen ed. 1998).

• Terril Lewis, Towards Implementation of the Madrid Protocol in the United States, 89 Trademark Rep. 918 (1999)

• J. Thomas McCarthy & Veronica Colby Devitt, Protection of Geographical Denominations: Domestic and International, 69 Trademark Rep. 199 (1979)

• Jeffrey M. & Linda B. Samuels, The US Perspective on the Madrid Protocol, 1993 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 418 (1993).

• Roger E. Schechter, Facilitating Trademark Registration Abroad: The Implications of U.S. Ratification to the Madrid Protocol, 25 Geo. Wash. J. Int'l L. & Econ. 419 (1991)

• Allan Zelnick,  The Madrid Protocol -- Some Reflections,  82 Trademark Rep. 651 (1992)

• Gerd F. Kunze, The Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of June 27, 1989, 82 Trademark Rep. 58 (1992)

Further Readings (Geographical Indications):

• Friedrich-Karl Beier & Roland Knaak, The Protection of Direct and Indirect Geographical Indications of Source in Germany and the European Community, 25 I.I.C. 1 (1994)

• Lee Bendekgey & Caroline H. Mead, International Protection of Appellations of Origin and Ohter Geographic Indications, 82 Trademark Rep. 781 (1992)

• Albrecht Conrad, The Protection of Geographical Indications in the TRIPs Agreement, 86 Trademark Rep. 11 (1996)

• Christine Haight Farley, Conflicts Between U.S. Law and International Treaties Concerning Geographical Indications, 22 Whittier L. Rev. 73 (2000)

• Stacy D. Goldberg, Comment, Who Will Raise the White Flag? The Battle Between the United States and the European Union over the Protection of Geographical Indications, 22 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 107 (2001)

• Paul Heald, Trademarks and Geographic Indications: Exploring the Contours of the TRIPs Agreement, 29 Vand. J. Trans. L. 635 (1996)

• Robert M. Kunstadt & Gregor Buhler, Bud Battle Illustrates Perials of Geographic Marks, Nat'l L.J., May 18, 1998

• Louis C. Lenzen, Bacchus in the Hinterlands: A Study of Denominations of Origin in French and American Wine-Labeling Laws, 58 Trademark Rep. 145 (1968)

• Howard Poliner, Appellations of Origin in Israel Pursuant to the Lisbon Agreement, 21 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 149 (1999)

Class 16 (3/19):  EU Harmonization and the Likelihood of Association

Readings:

• Dwijen Rangnekar, A Slice of Parma Ham: Understanding the Protection of Geographical Indications, in 4 Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (Peter K. Yu ed., 2007) Please pick it up from Jacklyn Beard's office

• Wagamama Ltd v. City Centre Restaurants PLC, [1995] FSR 713 (Ch. D.) (Eng.)

• Sabel BV v. Puma AG (Case C-251/95), 1998 R.P.C. 199, 1998 E.T.M.R. 1 (1997)

Further Readings:

• Ruth E. Annand, Lookalikes Under the New United Kingdom Trade Marks Act of 1994, 86 Trademark Rep. 142 (1996)

• Paul Harris, UK Trade Mark Law: Are You Confused?, 17 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 601 (1995)

• Gregory Hotaling, Ideal Standard v. IHT: In the European Union, Must a Company Surrender Its National Trademark Rights When It Assigns Its Trademark?, 19 Ford. Int'l L.J. 1178 (1996)

• Heidi Hurdle, Jacob J. Treats Us All, 18 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 299 (1996)

• Peter Prescott, Has the Benelux Trade Mark Law Been Written into the Directive, 19 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 99 (1997)

• Peter Prescott, Think Before You Waga Finger, 18 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 317 (1996)

• Anselm Kamperman Sanders, The Wagamama Decision: Back to the Dark Ages of Trade Mark Law, 18 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 3 (1996)

• Anselm Kamperman Sanders, The Return to Wagamama, 18 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 521

Class 17 (3/21):  Internet Domain Names and ccTLDs

Due:  Problem Set 5

Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, The Neverending ccTLD Story, in Addressing the World: National Sovereignty and Internet Country Code Domains (Erica Schlesinger Wass ed., forthcoming 2003)

• Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi, Case No. D2000-0847 (WIPO 2000) (html | Word)

• Bruce Springsteen v. Jeff Burgar and Bruce Springsteen Club, Case No. D200-1532 (WIPO 2001) (html | Word)

• Sallen v. Corinthians Licenciamentos LTDA, 273 F.3d 14 (1st Cir. 2001)

• Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Skim and Bring to Class

Further Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, A Summary of the Final Report of the Second WIPO Internet Domain Name Process, GigaLaw.com, Jan. 2002

• Peter K. Yu, An Overview of the "Best Practices Report" for Country-Code Domains, GigaLaw.com, July 2001

• Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

• Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d) (2000)

• WIPO, The Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Intellectual Property Issues: Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process (1999) (pdf | html)

• WIPO, The Recognition of Rights and the Use of Names in the Internet Domain Name System: Final Report of the Second WIPO Internet Domain Name Process (2001) (pdf | html)

• WIPO, WIPO ccTLD Best Practices for the Prevention and Resolution of Intellectual Property Disputes (2001) (pdf | html)
  Foreign Language Versions: Arabic | Chinese | French | Spanish | Russian

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, (National) Trademark Laws and (Non-national) Domain Name System, 21 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 495 (2000)

• Assafa Endeshaw, The Threat of Domain Names to the Trademark System, 3 J. World Intell. Prop. 323 (2000).

• Marshall Leaffer, Domain Names, Globalization, and Internet Governance,  6 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 139 (1998)

• J. Thomas McCarthy, Trademarks, Cybersquatters and Domain Names, 10 DePaul J. Art & Ent. L. 231 (2000)

• Christopher Rains, A Domain by Any Other Name: Forging International Solutions for the Governance of Internet Domain Names, 14 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 355 (2000)

Web Resources:

• WIPO ccTLD Database

• ccTLD Resource Materials

• ICANN Watch

Class 18 (3/26):  Development of International Patent Treaties

Readings:

• Heinrich Kronstein & Irene Till, A Reevaluation of the International Patent Convention, 12 Law & Contemp. Probs. 765 (1947)

• Edmund W. Kitch, The Patent Policy of Developing Countries, 13 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 166 (1994)

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy: Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights ch. 6 (2002)

• Peter K. Yu, The Harmonization Game: What Basketball Can Teach About Intellectual Property and International Trade, 26 Fordham Int'l L.J. 701 (2002) (optional, but you should read it, it's fun and timely re: March Madness)

Further Readings: 

• G.H.C. Bodenhausen, Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1968)

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy: Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (2002)

• Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (Mitchell B. Wallerstein et al. eds., 1993)

• Tara Kalagher Giunta & Lily H. Shang, Ownership of Information in a Global Economy, 27 Geo. Wash. J. Int’l L. & Econ. 327 (1993)

• Intellectual Property Rights: Global Consensus, Global Conflict? (R. Michael Gadbaw & Timothy J. Richards eds., 1988)

• Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets (Clarissa Long ed., 2000)

• Keith E. Maskus, Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy (2002)

• Robert Merges, Battle of the Lateralisms: Intellectual Property and Trade, 8 B.U. Int’l L.J. 239 (1990)

• R. Carl Moy, The History of the Patent Harmonization Treaty: Economic Self-Interest as an Influence, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 457 (1993)

• Ruth Okediji, Toward an International Fair Use Doctrine, 39 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 75 (2000)

• J.H. Reichman, Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade After the GATT’s Uruguay Round, 20 Brook. J. Int’l L. 75 (1993)

• Symposium, The Inaugural Engelberg Conference on the Culture and Economic of Participation in an International Intellectual Property Regime, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (1997)

• WIPO, The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property from 1883 to 1983 (1983)

Class 19 (3/28):  Patent Cooperation Treaty

• WIPO, Protecting Your Inventions Abroad:  Frequently Asked Questions About the Patent Cooperation Treaty, WIPO Publication No. 433(E) (Apr. 2006)

• John F. Duffy, Harmony and Diversity in Global Patent Law, 17 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 685 (2002)

Classes 20-21 (3/30-31):  "What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories"

Note: You are required to attend any two sessions. For attendance, please sign up at the registration table.

Class 22 (4/2):  The Protection of Pharmaceuticals

Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, SARS and the Patent Race: An Introduction to the "Patent Law, Social Policy, and Public Interest" Symposium

• The International Enclosure Movement, 82 Ind. L.J. (forthcoming 2007) Read Parts II and III

Further Readings:

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy: Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights ch. 2 (2002)

• Frederick M. Abbott, The Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health: Lighting a Dark Corner at the WTO, 5 J. Int’l Econ. L. 469 (2002)

• Thomas F. Cotter, Market Fundamentalism and the TRIPs Agreement, 22 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. (forthcoming 2003)

• James Thuo Gathii, Construing Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy Consistently with Facilitating Access to Affordable Aids Drugs to Low-End Consumers, 53 Fla. L. Rev. 727 (2001)

• Debora Halbert, Moralized Discourses: South Africa’s Intellectual Property Fight for Access to AIDS Drugs, 1 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 257 (2002)

• Ellen ’t Hoen, TRIPs, Pharmaceutical Patents, and Access to Essential Medicines: A Long Way from Seattle to Doha, 3 Chi. J. Int’l L. 27 (2002)

• Jean O. Lanjouw, A New Global Patent Regime for Diseases: U.S. and International Legal Issues, 16 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 85 (2002)

• Susan K. Sell, TRIPs and the Access to Medicines Campaign, 20 Wis. J. Int’l L. 480 (2002)

• José Marcos Nogueira Viana, Intellectual Property Rights, the World Trade Organization and Public Health: The Brazilian Perspective, 17 Conn. J. Int’l L. 311 (2002)

• Alan O. Sykes, TRIPS, Pharmaceuticals, Developing Countries, and the Doha “Solution,” 3 Chi. J. Int’l L. 47 (2002)

Class 23 (4/4):  Plant Patents, Plant Variety Protection and Traditional Knowledge

Readings:

• The Bellagio Declaration

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy: Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights ch. 3 (2002)

• Rosemary J. Coombe, The Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Traditional Knowledge in International Law, 14 St. Thomas L. Rev. 275 (2001)

• Peter K. Yu, Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture: An Introduction, 11 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 239 (2003)

Further Readings:

• Keith Aoki, Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property, and Biopiracy in the (Not-So-Brave) New World Order of International Intellectual Property Protection, 6 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 11 (1998)

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy: Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights ch. 4 (2002)

• Rosemary J. Coombe, New Dilemmas in International Law Posed by the Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and the Conservation of Biodiversity, 6 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 59, 59-76 (1998)

• David R. Downes, How Intellectual Property Could Be a Tool to Protect Traditional Knowledge, 25 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 253 (2000)

• Christine Haight Farley, Protecting Folklore of Indigenous Peoples: Is Intellectual Property the Answer?, 30 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (1997)

• Paul Kuruk, Protecting Folklore Under Modern Intellectual Property Regimes: A Reappraisal of the Tensions Between Individual and Communal Rights in Africa and the United States, 48 Am. U. L. Rev. 769 (1999)

• Jeffrey P. Kushan, Biodiversity: Opportunities and Obligations, 28 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 755 (1995)

• Doris Estelle Long, The Impact of Foreign Investment on Indigenous Culture: An Intellectual Property Perspective, 23 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 229 (1998)

• Charles R. Mcmanis, The Interface Between International Intellectual Property and Environmental Protection: Biodiversity and Biotechnology, 76 Wash. U. L.Q. 255 (1998)

• Srividhya Ragavan, Protection of Traditional Knowledge, 2 Minn. Intell. Prop. Rev. 1 (2001)

• Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Of Seeds and Shamans: The Appropriation of the Scientific and Technical Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities, 17 Mich. J. Int’l L. 919 (1996)

• Susan Scafidi, Intellectual Property and Cultural Products, 81 B.U. L. Rev. 793 (2001)

• Symposium, Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture, 11 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 239 (2003)

Class 24 (4/9):  Protection of Indigenous Peoples

Due:  First Draft

Readings:

• Illinois to Retire Chief Illiniwek After 81 Years, Associated Press, Mar. 14, 2007

• Illinois Ends All Vestiges of Chief Illiniwek, Associated Press, Feb 16, 2007

Film Presentation: “In Whose Honor?: American Indian Mascots in Sports”

Class 25 (4/11):  Intellectual Property and Human Rights

Readings:

• Laurence R. Helfer, Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?, 5 Minn. Intell. Prop. Rev. 47 (2003)

• Peter K. Yu, Reconceptualizing Intellectual Property Interests in a Human Rights Framework, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007) Read Part II only

• Ten Common Questions About Intellectual Property and Human Rights, 23 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007) Read Question 6 Only

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Read Article 27 only)

Further Readings:

• General Comment No. 17: The Right of Everyone to Benefit from the Protection of the Moral and Material Interests Resulting from Any Scientific, Literary or Artistic Production of Which He Is the Author (Art. 15(1)(c)), U.N. Doc. E/C.12/GC/17 (Jan. 12, 2006)

• Laurence R. Helfer, Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006)

• Peter K. Yu, The Trust and Distrust of Intellectual Property Rights, 16 Revue quebecoise de droit international (forthcoming 2005)

• Panel discussion on Intellectual Property and Human Rights
  Geneva, November 9, 1998

Class 26 (4/16):  The Future of International Intellectual Property Law

Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, Intellectual Property and the Information Ecosystem, 2005 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1

• Jane C. Ginsburg, International Copyright: From a "Bundle" of National Copyright Laws to a Supranational Code?, 47 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 265 (2000)

Further Readings:

• Frederick M. Abbott, TRIPS in Seattle: The Not-So-Surprising Failure and the Future of the TRIPS Agenda, 18 Berkeley J. Int’l Law 165 (2000)

• Gail E. Evans, Lawmaking Under the Trade Constitution: A Study in Legislating by the World Trade Organization 194 (2000)

• Robert E. Hudec, Enforcing International Trade Law: The Evolution of the Modern GATT Legal System 364 (1993)

• John H. Jackson, The World Trading System: Law and Policy of International Economic Relations 111 (2d ed. 1997)

• David A. Gantz, Failed Efforts to Initiate the “Millennium Round” in Seattle: Lessons for Future Global Trade Negotiations, 17 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 349 (2000)

• Robert F. Housman, Democratizing International Trade Decision-making, 27 Cornell Int’l L.J. 699 (1994)

• J.H. Reichman, The TRIPS Agreement Comes of Age: Conflict or Cooperation with the Developing Countries, 32 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 441 (2000)

• Michael H. Shuman, GATTzilla v. Communities, 27 Cornell Int’l L.J. 527 (1994)

• John Jackson, The Institutional and Jurisdictional Architecture: Reflections on Constitutional Changes to the Global Trading System, 72 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 511 (1996)

• John O. McGinnis & Mark L. Movsesian, The World Trade Constitution, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 511 (2000)

• Clyde Summers, The Battle in Seattle: Free Trade, Labor Rights, and Societal Values, 22 U. Pa. J. Int’l Econ. L. 61 (2001)

• Susan Tiefenbrun, Free Trade and Protectionism: The Semiotics of Seattle, 17 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 257 (2000)

• Peter K. Yu, World Trade, Intellectual Property, and the Global Elites: An Introduction, 10 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. (2002)

Class 27-28 (4/9-4/16):  Paper Sessions

Note: There will be no class on 4/18 and 4/23 (Class Moved).

Final Paper Due: May 9, 2007, at 6 p.m. EST

Spring 2006 Syllabus

Spring 2005 Syllabus

Spring 2004 Syllabus