Intellectual Property Rights as Foreign Direct Investments: From Collision to Collaboration

This discerning book examines the interface between intellectual property and foreign direct investments to consider one key question: how does the international investment law framework and the international legal regime regulating intellectual property converge?

The book scrutinizes circumstances in which and to what extent international investment law's traditional protective standards apply to intellectual property rights investments and contributes to debate surrounding the fragmentation of international law, arising from its expansion and diversification.