"Preface" [2013] ELECD 570; in Takenaka, Toshiko (ed), "Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) ix

Book Title: Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law

Editor(s): Takenaka, Toshiko

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857934369

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This book is the result of collaborations between European and Asian
scholars who participated in a ten-year project co-sponsored by the
Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP)
(http://www.21coe-win-cls.org/rclip/e_index.html) at Waseda Law School
in Tokyo, Japan and the Center for Advanced Study and Research on
Intellectual Property (CASRIP) (http://www.law.washington.edu/Casrip/)
at the University of Washington, School of Law (UWLS) in Seattle,
Washington, U.S.A. I had the pleasure of working with Professor Ryu
Takabayashi, Director of RCLIP, and his colleagues when I taught com-
parative IP classes at Waseda Law School as a visiting professor from 2004
to 2011. RCLIP received funding from the Japanese government to develop
a database on IP cases from major jurisdictions in Asia and Europe (http://
www.globalcoe-waseda-law-commerce.org/rclip/db/search_form.php). By
making the database publicly accessible free of charge and by sponsoring
a number of conferences, RCLIP promoted a comparative law study of IP
among not only Japanese scholars but also IP professionals and scholars in
other Asian countries and Europe.
CASRIP co-sponsored many such conferences with RCLIP in both
Tokyo and Seattle and contributed articles and book chapters for publica-
tion based on these conferences. It also translated more than 1500 cases
from France, Germany, Italy and Spain and collected approximately
400 cases from India and the U.K. by working with scholars from these
countries. These cases ...