Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Intellectual Property: a Comparison for the International Law Association

Abstract

The following comparison was written for the first meeting of the International Law Association’s 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 concerns the rules on recognition and enforcement of judgments posed by four sets of academic principles.