Books in search of a reviewer

JIPLP has received four more books for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of them, please email Sarah Harris at sarah.harris@oup.com and tell her of your interest, ideally by close of play on Wednesday 2 August.

If you are not yet known to JIPLP as a contributor or reviewer, do send us your CV or tell us why you think you are the right person to review the book you are are requesting. Don't forget: if you review the book, you get to keep it -- but if you don't review it in a timely manner, we ask for it back so that it can be reviewed by someone else.

These are the books:

Title: International Copyright Law: US and EU Perspectives
Authors: Jane Ginsburg and Edouard Treppoz
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

"International copyright law is a complex and evolving field, of manifest and increasing economic significance. Its intellectual challenges derive from the interlocking relationships of multiple international instruments and national or regional laws and judgments.

This ground-breaking casebook provides a comprehensive and comprehensible account of international copyright and neighbouring rights law, from the cornerstone of the 1886 Berne Convention and the Rome Convention of 1961, through to the 1994 TRIPS Agreement and the 1996 and later WIPO Copyright Treaties. It examines how national laws have implemented the international norms, and explores the issues these sources have left ambiguous or unresolved".

Further information concerning this title can be obtained from the book's website here

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Title: Guide to Intellectual Property: What is it, how to protect it, how to exploit it
Author: Stephen Johnson
Publisher: The Economist

"IP accounts for an estimated $5trn of GDP in the US alone. It covers patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, designs and trade secrets. Unsurprisingly, companies zealously guard their own ideas and challenge the IP of others. Damages arising from infringements have fostered a sizeable claims industry. But IP law is complex, and the business, financial and legal issues around it are difficult to navigate. Court decisions and interpretation of IP laws can be unpredictable, and can dramatically change the fortunes of businesses that rely on their IP - as demonstrated in the pharmaceutical industry's battle with generic drugs".

Further information concerning this title can be obtained from the book's website here

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Title: Innovation & IP: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa
 Editors: J de Beer and others
Publishers: UCT Press

"In the global knowledge economy, intellectual property rights - and the innovations they are meant to spur - are important determinants of progress. But what does this mean for the nations of Africa? One view is that strong IP protection can facilitate innovation in African settings. Others say that existing IP systems are simply not suited to the realities of Africa. This book, based on case studies and evidence collected across nine countries in Africa sheds new light on the complex relationships between innovation and intellectual property. It covers findings across many sites of innovation and creativity, including music, leather goods, textiles, cocoal, coffee, auto parts, traditional medicine, book publishing, biofuels and university research, and presents a picture in which innovators share a common appreciation for collaboration and openness".

Further information concerning this title can be obtained from the book's website here

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Title: Trade Marks and Free Trade: A Global Analysis 
Author: Lazaros Grigoriadis
Publisher: Springer

"This book is the first study to examine the issue of the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods under the most important legal systems on an international level, namely under GATT/WTO law, EU law and the laws of the ten major trading partners of the European Union. ... 

The book is the first legal study to welcome, in light of economic analysis, the approach adopted by GATT/WTO law and EU law to the question of the geographical scope of the exhaustion of the trademark rights rule. It includes all the case law developed on an international level on the issue of the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods and a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature concerning the phenomenon of parallel imports in general and the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods. All the views expressed in the book are based on the European Court of Justice’s most recent case law and that of the courts of the most important trading partners of the European Union".

 Further information concerning this title can be obtained from the book's website here