"Contributors" [2011] ELECD 200; in Kur, Annette (ed), "Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System

Editor(s): Kur, Annette

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800099

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contributors
Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Prof. Dr., University of Stockholm
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Dr., senior research fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich
Annette Kur, Prof. Dr., senior research fellow and head of department,
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law,
Munich
Marianne Levin, Prof. Dr., director, Institute for Intellectual Property and
Market Law (IFIM), University of Stockholm
Frantzeska Papadopoulou, LLM (Stockholm and Uppsala), legal counsel,
Svensk Indstriförbundet, SINF
Jens Schovsbo, Prof. Dr., University of Copenhagen
Andrea Wechsler, research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual
Property and Competition Law and Coordinator of the International Max
Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI),
Munich




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Preface
This project, which has been conducted since 2001 under the aegis of
the Institute for Intellectual Property Law and Market Law (IFIM) at
Stockholm University in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for
Intellectual Property and Competition Law (MPI) in Munich, took its
cue from intense private discussions between the editors over dinners and
coffees from the mid 1990s, exchanging views on actual developments and
prognoses for the future of intellectual property (IP) matters. We soon
observed that the tendency to apply a one-sided and inflexible approach
to IP on the global as well as on the domestic level might distort the neces-
sary equilibrium between the different interests involved, and thus become
a source of systemic malfunctions and increasing discontent. The response
to that, in our opinion, could only be ...