China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property

Implications for Global Distributive Justice
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-24369-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 647 g

Reihe: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

This book analyses how China has engaged in global IP governance and the implications of its engagement for global distributive justice. It investigates five cases on China’s IP engagement in geographical indications, the disclosure obligation, IP and standardisation, and its bilateral and multilateral IP engagement. It takes a regulation-oriented approach to examine substate and non-state actors involved in China’s global IP engagement, identifies principles that have guided or constrained its engagement, and discusses strategies actors have used in managing the principles. Its focus on engagement directs attention to processes instead of outcomes, which enables a more nuanced understanding of the role that China plays in global IP governance than the dichotomic categorisation of China either as a global IP rule-taker or rule-maker.

This book identifies two groups of strategies that China has used in its global IP engagement: forum and agenda-related strategies and principle-related strategies. The first group concerns questions of where and how China has advanced its IP agenda, including multi-forum engagement, dissembling, and more cohesive responsive engagement. The second group consists of strategies to achieve a certain principle or manage contesting principles, including modelling and balancing. It shows that China’s deployment of engagement strategies makes its IP system similar to those of the EU and the US. Its balancing strategy has led to constructed inconsistency of its IP positions across forums. This book argues that China still has some way to go to influence global IP agenda-setting in a way matching its status as the second largest economy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Wenting

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction to IP.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part II: Case Studies.- Chapter 2: China Enga/ges in International Regulation of Geographical Indications.- Chapter 3: China Engages in International Regulation of Disclosure Obligation.- Chapter 4: China Emerges in International Standardisation.- Chapter 5: China’s Bilateral IP Engagement: A Look into the Chinese FTAs.- Chapter 6: China and Multilateral IP Governance.- Part III: Discussion.- Chapter 7: Who Governs? Actors in China’s International IP Engagement.- Chapter 8: Principles for China’s International IP Engagement.- Chapter 9: China’s Strategies to Engage in Global IP Governance.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Wenting Cheng is Grand Challenge Research Fellow at the College of Law, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.