Dr Simon Klopschinski is an associate at Rospatt Osten Pross, an intellectual property firm based in Düsseldorf, Germany, specializing in patent litigation, licencing, competition law, general contract law and commercial law, and the organization of multi-jurisdictional patent litigation in Europe. He received the Otto Hahn Medal for his analysis of the protection of intellectual property by means of investment treaties under international law, which he carried out in the course of his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich and went on to publish in German.Professor Christopher Gibson is an expert in international law, international arbitration, and international intellectual property issues at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Previously, Professor Gibson was a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he specialized in the areas of international arbitration, intellectual property, and technology disputes and transactions. Professor Gibson teaches and writes in the areas of international dispute resolution, international intellectual property, international trade, and internet law and technology.Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of King's College (Cambridge) and an external researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany). Henning's research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces amongst legal orders in international law, including transnational law set by private actors.

This title fills an important gap in the literature on investment arbitration... At the core of the work, the reader finds a meticulous analysis of a total of four IP related investor state arbitration cases, which as such provide the foundational corpus of arbitral case law precedent for this burgeoning new discipline.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Fragmentation of Public International Law 3: Investor-Host-State Arbitration 4: Investment and Investor 5: Relative Treatment Standards: National Treatment and the Most Favoured Nation Clause 6: Absolute Standards of Treatment: 'Fair and Equitable Treatment' and 'Full Protection and Security' 7: Expropriation 8: Conclusions

Dr Simon Klopschinski is an associate at Rospatt Osten Pross, an intellectual property firm based in Düsseldorf, Germany, specializing in patent litigation, licencing, competition law, general contract law and commercial law, and the organization of multi-jurisdictional patent litigation in Europe. He received the Otto Hahn Medal for his analysis of the protection of intellectual property by means of investment treaties under international law, which he carried out in the course of his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich and went on to publish in German.Professor Christopher Gibson is an expert in international law, international arbitration, and international intellectual property issues at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Previously, Professor Gibson was a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he specialized in the areas of international arbitration, intellectual property, and technology disputes and transactions. Professor Gibson teaches and writes in the areas of international dispute resolution, international intellectual property, international trade, and internet law and technology.Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of King's College (Cambridge) and an external researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany). Henning's research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces amongst legal orders in international law, including transnational law set by private actors.

This title fills an important gap in the literature on investment arbitration... At the core of the work, the reader finds a meticulous analysis of a total of four IP related investor state arbitration cases, which as such provide the foundational corpus of arbitral case law precedent for this burgeoning new discipline.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Fragmentation of Public International Law 3: Investor-Host-State Arbitration 4: Investment and Investor 5: Relative Treatment Standards: National Treatment and the Most Favoured Nation Clause 6: Absolute Standards of Treatment: 'Fair and Equitable Treatment' and 'Full Protection and Security' 7: Expropriation 8: Conclusions

Dr Simon Klopschinski is an associate at Rospatt Osten Pross, an intellectual property firm based in Düsseldorf, Germany, specializing in patent litigation, licencing, competition law, general contract law and commercial law, and the organization of multi-jurisdictional patent litigation in Europe. He received the Otto Hahn Medal for his analysis of the protection of intellectual property by means of investment treaties under international law, which he carried out in the course of his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich and went on to publish in German.Professor Christopher Gibson is an expert in international law, international arbitration, and international intellectual property issues at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Previously, Professor Gibson was a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he specialized in the areas of international arbitration, intellectual property, and technology disputes and transactions. Professor Gibson teaches and writes in the areas of international dispute resolution, international intellectual property, international trade, and internet law and technology.Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of King's College (Cambridge) and an external researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany). Henning's research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces amongst legal orders in international law, including transnational law set by private actors.

This title fills an important gap in the literature on investment arbitration... At the core of the work, the reader finds a meticulous analysis of a total of four IP related investor state arbitration cases, which as such provide the foundational corpus of arbitral case law precedent for this burgeoning new discipline.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Fragmentation of Public International Law 3: Investor-Host-State Arbitration 4: Investment and Investor 5: Relative Treatment Standards: National Treatment and the Most Favoured Nation Clause 6: Absolute Standards of Treatment: 'Fair and Equitable Treatment' and 'Full Protection and Security' 7: Expropriation 8: Conclusions