Under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
(now the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition). And Institutum Iurisprudentiae
Academia Sinica a group of twenty scholars from around the world gathered to study the
experiences made with regards to compulsory licensing. The results are demonstrated in this
book. Different articles analyze how the international conventions on intellectual property may
be interpreted and explore the related doctrinal groundwork surrounding compulsory patent
licensing and beyond. It is shown how the compulsory licensing regime could be transformed into
a truly workable mechanism facilitating the speedy use and dissemination of innovation and
other subject matters of protection.
