Creative ideas for Intellectual Property : The ATRIP papers 2000-2001 : Des idées innovatrices pour la propriété intellectuelles : Rapports ATRIP 2000-2001

Under the leadership of several schlolars of world renown, ATRIP became the premier forum of academic discussions dedicated to the whole of intellectual property law. Its annual meetings are visited by scholars free of any vested interest. At a time when the surge of computer rights, bio-technology and the media industries has reshaped the panorama of intellectual property law, the anchoring of the ATRIP neutral reports in legal science with an intimate knowledge of its traditions and broad perspectives has furthered an impartial examination of all important issues between academics of the five continents. CEDIDAC is proud to publish the papers that were presented on the last two annual conventions of the ATRIP, in Santorini 2000 and in Lausanne 2001. Their variety and their quality called for publication. The reports are dealing with copyright law, as well as patent law or utility model, and developments in African intellectual property law. They are completed with the traditional National Reports transmitting the most recent informations on several countries property law.