The Geneva Act: A Novel Book

has received a rattling handsome review re-create of his friend William T. Fryer III's novel book, The Geneva Act (1999) of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs: Drafting History too Analysis. Published this twelvemonth yesteryear Kluwer Law International, this fiddling majority (238 pages, including appendices) contains the fullest concern human relationship of this little-loved too fifty-fifty less understood Agreement that anyone is e'er probable to encounter inwards this lifetime.

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Professor Fryer participated inwards the meetings too diplomatic conference that led to the 1999 Act, every 2d good every 2d a subsequent user meeting), too therefore he is uniquely qualified to comment on it. His majority presents a detailed drafting history too proficient analysis, every 2d good every 2d strategic guidance for attorneys, businesses too governments inwards the implementation of the Act's provisions. Readers volition enjoy

* an overall agreement of how the 1999 Act operates to meliorate too update the Hague Agreement;

* proficient analysis of the Act's cardinal features;

* detailed exploration of the Act's provisions to protect industrial designs;

* strategic insights into using the Act's provisions to protect industrial designs;

* guidance for governments considering adherence to the Act and

* a root majority for the top dog treaty documents.

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