Intellectual Property Enforcement: A Commentary on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta)

by Michael Blakeney

This important book is the first detailed analytical treatment of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and its impact on intellectual property enforcement. The ACTA had been formulated to deal with the burgeoning growth in the trade in counterfeit and pirate products which was estimated to have increased ten-fold since the promulgation of the TRIPS Agreement in 1994. The book clarifies how the ACTA supplements the enforcement provisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849800030
• ISBN13: 9781849800037
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages