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International Intellectual Property, Problems, Cases, and Materials

5th Edition
Daniel C.K. Chow | Edward Lee
ISBN: 9798892091886
Subject: Intellectual Prop-Internatl
Format: Print - Hardbound
Page Count: 1150
Copyright: 2025 | Status: Accepting Pre-Orders

This new edition of the book continues the unparalleled strengths of prior editions that have made the book so successful with students. It remains concise yet offers clear expositions of the relevant laws. Plus, from start to finish, the book includes many short, practical, and straightforward problems—including new ones added to this edition—that liven class discussions and draw home the lessons to the students.

This edition is updated with the latest developments in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and international controversies in intellectual property, including novel issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI). The casebook includes updates about the controversies stemming from the U.S. blocking of appointments of members to the Appellate Body, the U.S. trade war with China, and the resulting concern over the WTO’s future and possible existential crisis.

The new edition adds significant new cases and controversies from the U.S., China, EU, and other countries, including on some of the most important intellectual property issues the world now faces:

  • whether AI-generated works can be copyrighted
  • whether training AI models with copyrighted works constitutes infringement or fair use or other exempted use
  • Poland’s unsuccessful challenge to Article 17 of the Digital Single Market Directive
  • whether AI-generated inventions can be patented
  • the launch of the Unitary Patent in Europe
  • the WTO’s adoption of the so-called TRIPS waiver
  • several new transnational trademark and geographical indication controversies in the United States, including the Supreme Court’s decision in Abritron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc.,
  • a recent controversy decided under the Defend Trade Secret Act against a company based in China
  • the new EU Design Regulation and Design Directive, and WIPO’s Design Law Treaty
  • the challenges businesses face in combating counterfeit products sold online in China
  • efforts to combat counterfeits on Amazon through its Counterfeit Crimes Unit and proposed bills in Congress to require more from online marketplaces
The casebook also contains many excerpts of major international intellectual property treaties and can be used without the Documents Supplement. Students who wish to have the full text of the treaties can supplement their study with the comprehensive Documents Supplement.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 06/09/2025
Related Subject(s): Intellectual Prop-Survey

Daniel C.K. Chow, Ohio State University College of Law

Edward Lee, Santa Clara University School of Law

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The new edition adds significant new cases and controversies from the U.S., China, EU, and other countries, including on some of the most important intellectual property issues the world now faces:

  • whether AI-generated works can be copyrighted
  • whether training AI models with copyrighted works constitutes infringement or fair use or other exempted use
  • Poland’s unsuccessful challenge to Article 17 of the Digital Single Market Directive
  • whether AI-generated inventions can be patented
  • the launch of the Unitary Patent in Europe
  • the WTO’s adoption of the so-called TRIPS waiver
  • several new transnational trademark and geographical indication controversies in the United States, including the Supreme Court’s decision in Abritron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc.,
  • a recent controversy decided under the Defend Trade Secret Act against a company based in China
  • the new EU Design Regulation and Design Directive, and WIPO’s Design Law Treaty
  • the challenges businesses face in combating counterfeit products sold online in China
  • efforts to combat counterfeits on Amazon through its Counterfeit Crimes Unit and proposed bills in Congress to require more from online marketplaces

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