ABSTRACT
Canada’s place in the international legal landscape of intellectual property (IP) has shifted dramatically in the last 150 years. It could shift even more in the next 50. This introduction offers readers a framework for thinking strategically about Canada’s past, present and future in international IP law. It explains how Canada’s position progressed over three historical phases of about a half-century each. While the deepest accounts of Canada’s evolving approaches treat the domains of IP separately, or offer regionally centred analyses, the present high-level treatment offers an integrated overview of international IP relations in general. It concludes with three topics – mega-regionalism, sub-state engagement, and private and soft law measures – requiring strategic foresight to successfully reposition Canada for the next half-century.
de Beer, Jeremy, Introduction to Intellectual Property Law: Three Phases of Canada’s International IP Relations (2018) in O Fitzgerald, V Hughes and M Jewett, Reflections on Canada’s Past, Present and Future in International Law (Waterloo: CIGI Press, 2018).
First posted 2020-10-16 05:28:33
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