Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm

Edited by Ysolde Gendreau, Professor of Law, Université de Montréal, Canada

‘An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm is a definitive guide to the creative, cosmopolitan, cool-headed, and compassionate jurisprudence of Canadian intellectual property law. This volume shows that Canadian intellectual property law is an eclectic blend of British, French, and American legal traditions. After a pattern of resistance and accommodation, the legal system has internalised a variety of foreign influences. This collection explores the unique innovations of Canadian intellectual property law - such as its pioneering development of moral rights; the robust Copyright Board of Canada; and the Jean Chretien Pledge to Africa Act. Canadian intellectual property law has much to teach the rest of the world forging a "Middle Way" between the extremes of intellectual property maximalism and free-for-all piracy and counterfeiting.'

• Contents:PrefacePART I: INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY1. The Challenge of Trademark Law in Canada’s Federal and Bijural SystemTeresa Scassa2. A Watershed Year for Well Known or Famous MarksRobert G. Howell3. Canada’s Treatment of Geographical Indications: Compliant or Defiant? An International PerspectiveDianne Daley4. From Pasteur to Monsanto: Approaches to Patenting Life in CanadaMark Perry5. Canadian Pharmaceutical Patent Policy: International Constraints and Domestic PrioritiesMélanie Bourassa Forcier and Jean-Frédéric MorinPART II: COPYRIGHT6. Canadian Colonial Copyright: The Colony Strikes BackPierre-Emmanuel Moyse7. Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an AuthorAbraham Drassinower8. Moral Rights in Canada: An Historical and Comparative ViewElizabeth Adeney9. A Uniquely Canadian Institution: The Copyright Board of Canada Daniel J. GervaisPART III: OVERLAPPING ISSUES10. Battleground Between New and Old Orders: Control Conflicts Between Copyright and Personal Data ProtectionMargaret Ann Wilkinson11. When Intellectual Property Rights Converge – Tracing the Contours and Mapping the Fault Lines ‘Case by Case’ and ‘Law by Law’ Myra J. Tawfik12. Surfacing: The Canadian Intellectual Property IdentityYsolde GendreauIndex