Food Law

This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework and reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices; enforcement of IPRs; dispute settlement in the context of the TRIPS Agreement; TRIPS and public health; and current TRIPS issues.

Busy practitioners will benefit from this first practical guide to international trademark treaties with specific instructions for how to use treaties to obtain and enforce trademark rights throughout the world. International Trademark Treaties with Commentary organizes and clarifies the confusing multiplicity of international trademark treaties, with up-to-date information on the purpose of each treaty, substantive rights and procedures covered, enforcement provisions, member countries, and how you can use it in designing your trademark strategies.

In The Right to Food and the World Trade Organization's Rules on Agriculture: Conflicting, Compatible, or Complementary?, Rhonda Ferguson explores the relationship between the human right to food and agricultural trade rules.