Institut für Rechtsinformatik

Jürgen Basedow (MPI Hamburg), Toshiyuki Kono (Kyushu University) and Axel Metzger are
editing together the volume "Intellectual Property in the Global Arena - Jurisdiction,
Applicable Law, and the Recognition of Judgments in Europe, Japan and the US", which is
now published at Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen).

The private international law of intellectual property is currently much debated both in
Europe and abroad. Art. 8 of the Rome II Regulation of 2007, which codifies a territorial
approach for the infringement of intellectual property, has provoked an intensive
discussion in Europe whether the lex loci protectionis is still appropriate for
intellectual property litigation in the age of worldwide networks.

A condensed outcome of this debate is summarized in the "Principles for Conflict of Laws
in Intellectual Property" (CLIP Principles) drafted by the European Max Planck Group on
Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP), published recently in a second
preliminary draft. On the international scale, the American Law Institute’s "Intellectual
Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in
Transnational Disputes" of 2007 (ALI Principles) are the focal point of the debate. A
Japanese project ("Transparency proposal") has been finalized in 2009.

The volume provides a comparative analysis of the three proposals. It compiles papers
presented at an international conference held in Tokyo in May 2009. With contributions by
Jürgen Basedow, François Dessemontet, Christian A. Heinze, Shigeki Chaen/Toshiyuki
Kono/Dai Yokomizo, Axel Metzger, Ryu Kojima/Ryo Shimanami/Mari Nagata, Pedro A. de Miguel
Asensio, Toshiyuki Kono/Nozomi Tada/Miho Shin.

http://www.mohr.de/rechtswissenschaft/fachgebiete/alle-buecher/buch/intellectual-property-in-the-global-arena.html