Strategic issues of industrial property management in a globalizing economy : abstracts & selected papers / Thomas Cottier and Peter Widmer, editors ; Katharina Schindler, assistant editor.

1. Global approach to building strong trade marks; 2. Industrial property protection-lifeline for the pharmaceutical industry; 3. Industrial property rights and private sector development: lessons for developing countries; 4. Intellectual property rights in the balance sheet and specific tax problems in cross-border licensing; 5. Security interests in intellectual property; 6. Technological information and the essential facilities doctrine of U.S. antitrust law; 7. Patents and antitrust; 8. Industrial property management in a multinational corporation; 9. The employment of experts in mediating and arbitrating intellectual property disputes; 10. Implications of the trips agreement for dispute settlement in industrial property; 11. The role of litigation in corporate intellectual property strategy; 12. Rewarding creativity for conserving diversity in the third world: can IPR regime serve the needs of contemporary and traditional knowledge experts and communities in third world?; 13. Ethical and ecological aspects of industrial property rights in the context of genetic engineering and biotechnology; 14. Rights, compensation, indigenous knowledge systems and the strategy of global industrial property management: the challenge.