The Europeanization of Intellectual Property Law

Professor Ansgar Ohly has a chair in civil law and IP law at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He joined the University of Oxford as a Visiting Professor of Law in October 2009. His fields of research are all areas of intellectual property law, unfair competition law and the law of privacy and publicity, with a special focus on European harmonisation and on the comparison between civil law and common law systems.Dr Justine Pila is a university lecturer in IP law at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Requirement for and Invention in Patent Law (OUP, 2012). She convenes the Law Faculty's Intellectual Property subject group and teaches on all of its IP programmes, including the two FHS IP options, the BCL option, and the Postgraduate Diploma in IP Law and Practice. Her main areas of research are copyright and patent law in all of their doctrinal, theoretical and historical aspects. Prior to 2004 Justine had been writing her PhD after a stint in private practice and working for the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court.

This edited collection is an excellent guide and read for those searching for the lore behind European IP. The ambition to explore IP as a case study in private law Europeanisation is unique and a real contribution to scholarship in Europe and elsewhere It further emphasizes the uniqueness of IP as an independent field for judicial enquiry and not merely as a species of property. This edited collection succeeds in offering a natural starting point for thinking about a common European legal method, and the form which such a method might and ought to take (p.23) It is not only a fascinating journey through the thoughts and wisdom of the leading experts that have contributed to the volume, but a real pioneering learning experience.

• PART I: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ; 1. Intellectual Property as a Case Study in Europeanization: Methodological Themes and Context ; 2. An Overview of European Harmonization Measures in Intellectual Property Law ; PART II: HARMONIZATION MODELS AND APPROACHES ; 3. The Europeanization of Patent Law: Towards a Competitive Model ; 4. Is Harmonization a Good Thinga The Case of the Copyright Acquis ; 5. The Europeanization of Trade Mark Law ; PART III: THE IMPACT OF GENERAL EU LAW ; 6. The Impact of General European Union Law on Industrial Property Law ; 7. The Balancing Impact of General European Union Law on European Intellectual Property Jurisprudence ; PART IV: THE IMPACT OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND VALUES ; 8. The European Fundamental Rights and Intellectual Property ; 9. Rhetoric and Reality: The Impact of Constitutional and Fundamental Rights on Intellectual Property Law, as Revealed in the World of Peer to Peer ; PART V: EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL COURTS ; 10. The Relationship between European and National Courts in Intellectual Property Law ; 11. Towards a Unified Patent Court in Europe ; 12. The Future of European Intellectual Property Courts: Intellectual Property and the European Judicial Architecture ; PART VI: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN LEGAL METHODOLOGY? ; 13. A Constitutionalised Doctrine of Precedent and the Marleasing Principle as Bases for a European Legal Methodology ; 14. Concluding Remarks: Postmodernism and Beyond