1st Edition

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula The GCC states, Jordan and Yemen

By David Price, Alhanoof AlDebasi Copyright 2018
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

  This work examines the endeavours of the Arabian Peninsula States – namely the Gulf Cooperation Council member States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Jordan and Yemen as prospective GCC members – in establishing national intellectual property protection regimes which both meet their international treaty obligations and are also congruent with their... Read more

1. "Protecting Intellectual Property in the Arabian Peninsula" – Introduction and Context

2. ‘The Golden Thread That Binds’ – The Shariah and Intellectual Property Protection

3. Pre-TRIPS and Intellectual Property Protection in the Arabian Peninsula

4. TRIPS and Copyright and the Nature of Compliance in the Arabian Peninsula

5. TRIPS and Industrial Property and the Nature of Compliance in the Arabian Peninsula

6. TRIPS and Intellectual Property Enforcement

7. Post-TRIPS and the Enforcement Challenge

8. TRIPS-plus and ‘Raising the Bar’

9. TRIPS-minus and Protection Still Pending

10. TRIPS Anew – and Possible Future Directionsh

Biography

David Price is Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law and Public International Law at Charles Darwin University, Australia.

Alhanoof AlDebasi is an Intellectual Property Law lecturer at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), College of Business and Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.