This book analyses the governance foundations of innovation, brands, inventions, secrets and expression, which are the keys to a century based on knowledge. They are reflected in legal rights that have been fermenting over centuries of national policy deliberations on intellectual property rights, constantly in flux in the face of new advances in science, but overall a trend towards greater protectionism. As countries are challenged by the strictures of international agreements, often extorted through imbalanced power relationships, they seek their own national means for beneficial differentiation from the new global norms, whilst complying with international obligations. This book deals with the outcomes of regional governance of intellectual property, which often creates ripples in the search for harmony in the laws that form the basis for the future of intellectual property. The work has contributions that come from developing and developed nations, showing a common theme of thestruggle to find the balance in an area of law that often does not provide clearcut solutions to real world environments.

Mark Perry, The Changing Face of Intellectual Property: Global Forces and Compliance.- Lijuan Liu, Prior Art Defence in the Chinese Patent System.- Sunita Tripathy, Bio-Patent Pooling and Policy on Health Innovation and Access for Medicines that Treat HIV/AIDS: A Meeting of [Open] Minds?.- Shubha Ghosh, Patent Exhaustion on Trial in the United States.- Alison Firth, Code, Autonomous Concepts and Procedure: stepping stones for European law?.- Thomas Margoni, The Harmonisation of EU Copyright Law: The Originality Standard.- Margaret Ann Wilkinson, International Copyright: Marrakesh and the future of users' rights exceptions.- Nicolas Suzor, Rachel Choi, and Kylie Pappalardo, Moments of flux in intermediary liability for copyright infringement in Australia.- Heather Forrest, The Evolution of Domain Names and their Impacts on Trademark Rights.- Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, Non-Conventional Trademarks Under United States Law: An Unbounded New Frontier of Branding.- Kanya Hirunwattanapong, The ASEAN Single Market: A Perspective on Thailand's Trade Mark Development.- Ramesh Karky, Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment Agreements.- Kylie Lingard and Mark Perry, Innovation Cartography and Patentomics: Past, Present and Future.