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MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law 24 Christoph Antons Editors Reto M. Hilty Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Moreinformationabout thisseries at http://www.springer.com/series/7760 MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law Volume 24 Edited by Josef Drexl Reto M. Hilty Joseph Straus Christoph Antons • Reto M. Hilty Editors Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region Editors ChristophAntons RetoM.Hilty SchoolofLawFaculty MaxPlanckInstituteforInnovation ofBusinessandLaw andCompetition DeakinUniversity Munich Melbourne Germany Australia ISSN2191-5822 ISSN2191-5830(electronic) ISBN978-3-642-30887-1 ISBN978-3-642-30888-8(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-642-30888-8 SpringerHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014958007 ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionor informationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerpts inconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeing enteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplication ofthispublicationorpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthe Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer.PermissionsforusemaybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Preface This book has its origin in a 2-day workshop on ‘IP Aspects of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific Region’, held at the University of Wollongong in November 2008 with support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative IndustriesandInnovationandtheMaxPlanckInstituteforInnovationandCompe- tition.Theoriginalworkshoppapershavebeencompletelyrevisedandupdatedand takeintoaccountthedevelopmentsuntiltheendofMay2014.Theeditorswould liketothankElaineNewbyforeditorialassistance. Melbourne,VIC,Australia ChristophAntons Munich,Germany RetoM.Hilty May2014 v ThiSisaFMBlankPage Contents Introduction:IPandtheAsia-Pacific‘SpaghettiBowl’ofFreeTrade Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ChristophAntonsandRetoM.Hilty PartI FreeTradeAgreementsintheContextofWTOand InternationalLaw AnOverviewofFreeTradeAgreementsintheAsia-PacificRegion withaParticularFocusonIntellectualProperty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ChristophAntonsandDilanThampapillai LegalEffectsandPolicyConsiderationsforFreeTradeAgreements: WhatIsWrongwithFTAs?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 RetoM.HiltyandThomasJaeger PartII ThePoliticalEconomyofFreeTradeAgreementsinthe Asia-PacificRegion WhatDrivesRegionalisminEastAsia—AndWhyItMatters. . . . . . . . 87 JohnRavenhill TheTopologyofASEANFTAs,withSpecialReferencetoIP-Related Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 109 ThitaphaWattanapruttipaisan vii viii Contents PartIII US,EUandJapaneseStrategiesRegardingIPandFreeTrade AgreementsintheAsia-PacificRegion LinkingTrade,IntellectualPropertyandInvestmentinthe GlobalizingEconomy:TheInterrelatedRolesofFTAs,IP andtheUnitedStates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 RobertE.Lutz TheEUApproachtoIPProtectioninPartnershipAgreements. . . . . . . 171 ThomasJaeger Japan’sApproachtoFTAsandIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 NahokoOno PartIV IPandFTAStrategiesofChina SinicTradeAgreementsandChina’sGlobalIntellectualProperty Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 PeterK.Yu PartV TheAustralasianPerspectiveonFTAs:Australiaand NewZealand TheGovernanceofPatentsandPharmaceuticals:TheRegionalFTA Contribution. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. 287 ChristopherArup LimitsofFreeTradeAgreements:TheNewZealand/Australia Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 SusyFrankelandMeganRichardson PartVI IPintheFTAsofNewlyIndustrialisedEconomies:Korea andSingapore IPandFTAsofSingapore:TenYearsOn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 WeeLoonNg-Loy KORUSFTAandCopyrightProtectioninKorea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Dae-HeeLee PartVII IPintheFTAsof“SecondTierNICs”inSoutheastAsia FreeTradeAgreementsandtheEffectsofExistingAgreements onMalaysianIntellectualPropertyLaws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 HengGeeLim Introduction: IP and the Asia-Pacific ‘ ’ Spaghetti Bowl of Free Trade Agreements ChristophAntonsandRetoM.Hilty Contents 1 ForumShiftinginIntellectualPropertyNegotiations:FromBi-lateralNegotiations toTRIPSandBack?.......................................................................... 2 2 IntellectualPropertyinthe‘SpaghettiBowl’ofFTAsintheRegion...................... 3 3 TheStructureoftheBookandtheContributionsinContext............................... 7 References........................................................................................ 21 Abstract The contributions to this book show the strategies and policies of countriesintheAsia-Pacificregionthathavetograpplewithinternationalstandard setting in what has been called the ‘spaghetti bowl’ of criss-crossing free trade agreements. Thechaptersshow how intellectualproperty is justone among many politicalandeconomicfactors thatareused intradeoffdiscussions.Itleadstoan often considerable further raising of IP standards in those countries that agree to higherprotectionlevels,oftenforreasonsthathavelittletodowiththeprovisionof C.Antons:Referendarjur.(RhinelandPalatinate),Assessorjur.(Bavaria),PhDinLaw(Universityof Amsterdam);ChairinLaw;ChiefInvestigator,ARCCentreofExcellenceforCreativeIndustriesand Innovation; Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich;SeniorFellow,CenterforDevelopmentResearch,UniversityofBonn. R.M.Hilty:ProfessorDr.,Director.FullProfessoradpersonamattheUniversityofZurich.Honorary ProfessorattheUniversityofMunich. C.Antons SchoolofLaw,FacultyofBusinessandLaw,DeakinUniversity,Melbourne,Australia e-mail:[email protected] R.M.Hilty MaxPlanckInstituteforInnovationandCompetition,Munich,Germany e-mail:[email protected] ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 1 C.Antons,R.M.Hilty(eds.),IntellectualPropertyandFreeTrade AgreementsintheAsia-PacificRegion,MPIStudiesonIntellectualProperty andCompetitionLaw24,DOI10.1007/978-3-642-30888-8_1
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