Table of Contents

1. International Intellectual Property Law and the Common Law World—Introduction The Hon Justice W.M.C. Gummow Part 1: Intellectual Property and the Information Society 2. Database Protection and the Circuitous Route Around the United States Constitution Marci A. Hamilton 3 Commodifying and Transacting Informational Products Through Contractual Licences: The Challenge for Informational Constitutionalism Brian Fitzgerald 4. Shall We Shoot a Messenger Now and Then? Copyright Infringement and the On-line Service Provider Louise Longdin 5. Copyright Across (and Within) Domestic Borders Graeme W. Austin Part 2: Developments in Industrial Property 6. Dilution and Confusion: The Bases of Trade Mark Infringement or the new Australian Trade Marks Anti-dilution Law 1999 Sam Ricketson 7. New Challenges for the Law of Patents John Robinson Thomas 8. Patentability in Australia and New Zealand Under the Statute of Monopolies John Smillie 9. The Protection of Designs The Hon Sir Nicholas Pumfrey 10. Industrial Property in a Globalised Environment: Issues of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law John N. Adams Part 3: Competition and Market Regulation 11. Unfair Competition Law—“Over Protection Stifles the Very Creative Force it is Supposed to Nurture” Susy Frankel 12. Intellectual Property and Competition Policy: The Case for Neutrality Ian Eagles

About the Author

Charles Rickett is Dean of the School of Law at the University of Queensland. Graeme Austin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland.