Peukert, Alexander --- "Individual, Multiple and Collective Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights – Which Impact on Exclusivity?" [2011] ELECD 452; in Kur, Annette; Mizaras, Vytautas (eds), "The Structure of Intellectual Property Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: The Structure of Intellectual Property Law

Editor(s): Kur, Annette; Mizaras, Vytautas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848448766

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Individual, Multiple and Collective Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights – Which Impact on Exclusivity?

Author(s): Peukert, Alexander

Number of pages: 31

Extract:

10. Individual, multiple and collective
ownership of intellectual property
rights ­ which impact on exclusivity?
Alexander Peukert*

1. INTRODUCTION

The TRIPS Agreement covers no fewer than seven categories of intel-
lectual property (IP) rights.1 National IP law may comprise even more
types of IP rights. In German law, for example, plant varieties and utility
models are also governed by specific acts.2 In addition, there are IP-related
statutes on employee inventions, copyright collecting societies, etc.3 All
these issues are regulated on a national, regional4 and international level.


* Dr. iur., Professor of Law, Chair for Civil Law, Commercial Law and
Intellectual Property Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of
Excellence Normative Orders, http://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/peukert/.
1 See Art. 1(2) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual

Property Rights (TRIPS), available at http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/
legal_e/27-trips.pdf (accessed 2 February 2010): Copyright and Related Rights,
Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs, Patents, Layout-
Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits, and the Protection of Undisclosed
Information.
2 German Plant Variety Protection Act (Sortenschutzgesetz), available at

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sortschg_1985/index.html (accessed 19 January
2010); German Utility Models Act (Gebrauchsmustergesetz), available at http://
www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gebrmg/ (accessed 19 January 2010).
3 German Employee Inventions Act (Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen),

available at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/ (accessed 19 January
2010); German Law on the Administration of Copyright and Neighboring Rights
(Urheberrechtswahrnehmungsgesetz), available at http://www. ...