Emerging issues in intellectual property trade, technology and market freedom : essays in honour of Herchel Smith

Includes index.

The confusing case of Mr. Smith - Herchel Smith as litigant / Jeremy Phillips -- Auditing intellectual property rights by public research institutes / Michael Blakeney -- Some initial thoughts on copyright, human rights and market freedom / Uma Suthersanen -- Changing mechanisms in copyright's ontology - structure, reasoning, and the fate of the public domain / Guido Westkamp -- The structure of control - communication systems and copyright law / John Cahir -- Circumventing the idea/expression dichotomy : the use of copyright, technology and contract to deny access to ideas / Noam Shemtov -- The pharmaceutical industry, the evolution of patent law and the public interest : a brief history / Graham Dutfield -- Seabirds, series, and sonar : claiming registered rights / Alison Firth -- Post sale effects of a trade mark : conceptual necessity or a gift to trade mark proprietors? / Spyros Maniatis -- Intellectual property rights as strategic weapon : domestic and international trade considerations / Gary Lea -- Intellectual property law and political transformation : post-Socialist reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Mira Sundara Rajan -- Lessons from negotiating an amendment to the TRIPs-Agreement : compulsory licensing and access to medicines / Duncan Matthews -- The international protection of geographical indications yesterday, today and tomorrow / Gail Evans, Michael Blakeney -- -- Knowledge and other values : intellectual property and the limitations for traditional knowledge / Johanna Gibson -- Checking the lie of the land : current trends in bioprospecting related laws / Florian Leverve -- Avenues to ensure full participation of rural communities in access authorisation processes in Cameroon and South Africa / Marcelin Tonye Mahop -- NERICA, food security and intellectual property : from the green to the gene revolution / Muriel Lightbourne -- The appropriation of American Indian names and images in trade marks : the Washington Redskins case / Daphne Zografos.