Future of Asian Trade Deals and Ip by Liu Kung Chung (English) Hardcover Book

Author Biography

Kung-Chung Liu is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law (Practice) and the Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) at Singapore Management University.
Julien Chaisse is Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong and Advisory Board Member of the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Intersection between Intellectual Property Rights and Free Trade Agreements
Kung-Chung Liu and Julien Chaisse

PART I
FROM TPP/CPTPP TO RCEP
2. Selecting the Right Representatives to Participate in Trade Negotiations: A New Model of Multi-Stakeholder Involvement for Future Plurilateral Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
Benjamin Tham
3. Trade Strategies and Power Games between China, the US and India
Liyu Han and Jiaxun Sun
4. The Future of China's Trade Pact and Intellectual Property Rights
Han-Wei Liu and Si-Wei Lu
5. The RCEP Negotiations and Asian Intellectual Property Norm Setters
Peter K. Yu

PART II
INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
6. Recalibrating the Balance in International Investment Agreements
Tomoko Ishikawa
7. Issuance of Compulsory Patent Licences and Expropriation in Asian BITs and FTA Investment Chapters: A Study of India, China, Malaysia and Thailand
Prabhash Ranjan

PART III
IMPROVING THE IP PROVISIONS OF CPTPP/RCEP AND REDEFINING GLOBAL IP NORMS
8. Will RCEP Redefine Norms Related to Pre-grant Opposition and Experimental Use Exceptions in International Patent Law?
Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu
9. Patent Term Extension in the Pharmaceutical Sector: An Asian Comparative Perspective
Yaojin Peng
10. Mitigating the Impacts of Patent Linkage on Access to Medicine: Some Asian Experiences and Suggestions
Su-Hua Lee
11. Intellectual Property in Plant Material and Free Trade Agreements in Asia
Christoph Antons
12. Pre-established Damages for Copyright Infringement and Trademark Counterfeiting: Suggestions for CPTPP/RCEP Based on Some Asian Experiences
Kung-Chung Liu and Haoran Zhang
13. Liberalizing Use of the Three-Step Test and Copyright Limitations in the Public Interest
Haochen Sun

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on In this book, prominent Asia-focused trade and IP law academics re-examine the interrelation and trade-off between CPTPP and RCEP, the two most important trade deals in the making that will have great impact on Asia and its IP regimes. The first part re-examines some basic principles of trade negotiation; the second part reflects investor state dispute settlement and its relationship with IP. The third part questions how to improve some of the proposed IP provisions and aspects of international IP norms.

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