An international workshop on ‘IP aspects of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region’ is being held today (25 November) and tomorrow at UOW’s Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP).
The workshop has been organised in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich (MPI).
Director of CLDSAP, Professor Christoph Antons, and the Director of the MPI, Professor Reto Hilty, are joint conveners of the event.
Seventeen speakers from Australia and overseas are looking at the “spaghetti bowl” of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific region and focusing, in particular, on their intellectual property aspects.
The interdisciplinary workshop involves lawyers, economists and political scientists who are analysing the legal, economic and socio-political effects of IP chapters and provisions in Free Trade Agreements of leading industrialised economies such as the US, Europe and Japan, industrialised Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand and newly-industrialised or industrialising nations of East, Southeast and South Asia.
Intensive country studies are being preceded by sessions providing perspectives from international and comparative law and from the political economic arena.
