Infringement and Exclusive Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property: a Comparison for the International Law Association Ubertazzi Benedetta The following comparison was written for the first meeting of the International Law Association newly established (2010) Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law (Chair: Professor Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University; Co-Rapporteurs: Professors Pedro de Miguel Asensio, Madrid Complutense University, and Axel Metzger, Hannover University) (hereinafter: ILA Committee), which was hosted at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in March 16-17, 2012. The comparison at stake concerns the rules on infringement and exclusive (subject-mater) jurisdiction posed (or rejected, in case of exclusive jurisdiction) by four sets of academic principles. Notwithstanding the fact that the rules in question present several differences, those differences in the majority of cases could be overcome by further studies and work of the ILA Committee, as the following comparison explains. Exclusive (subject-matter) Jurisdiction Infringement Intellectual Property Inter Partes Effects Jurisdiction Territoriality Ubiquity Validity 340 periodical academic journal JIPITEC 3 3 2012 227 262 2190-3387 urn:nbn:de:0009-29-35191 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-35191 ubertazzi2012