Specialization in intellectual property of tribunals and judiciaries

Comité Asesor sobre Observancia, Undécima sesión, Ginebra, 5 a 7 de septiembre de 2016, “Mecanismos para resolver controversias de Propiedad Intelectual de forma equilibrada, holística y eficaz. Contribuciones preparadas por el Pakistán, Portugal, la Federación de Rusia, Sudáfrica, Tailandia, el Reino Unido, la Cámara de Comercio Internacional y el Profesor Jacques de Werra, de la Universidad de Ginebra (estudio conjunto de CEIPI- CTSD)”, WIPO/ACE/11/7, Geneva, 20 june 2016.

Comité Asesor sobre Observancia, Duodécima sesión, Ginebra, 4 a 6 de septiembre de 2017, “Mecanismos para resolver controversias de Propiedad Intelectual de forma equilibrada, holística y eficaz. Procedimientos judiciales eficaces. Contribuciones preparadas por Egipto, Panamá y Suiza”, WIPO/ACE/12/6, Geneva, 30 de junio de 2017.

FRILET MARC - KARILA Laurent, “The critical role of judicial experts in construction litigation and arbitration in France”, Construction Law International”, Volume 8 Issue 2 June 2013, ps. 42-44.

INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INSTITUTE, “Study on specialized Intellectual Property Courts”, en “https://iipi.org/wp-ontent/uploads/2012/05/Study-on-Specialized-IPR-Courts.pdf”, paper, 2012.

PEARCE Brian, “Is there a need for specialization by the Courts and the Prosecutors?”, paper, in “https://www.asean.org/uploads/archive/21388-.pdf”.

POPA Gheorghe, NECULA Ionel , “Study on expert status in the European judicial system”, in “Agora International Journal of Juridical Sciences” No. 3, 2013, ps. 161-168.

WERRA Jacques de, “Specialized Intellectual Property Courts - Issues and Challenges”, with contributions by Denis Borges Barbosa and Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa, Hong Xue, Shamnad Basheer and Susan Isiko Štrba, Issue Number 2, ICSTD - CEIPI, Geneva, 2016.

THE INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION - Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee, “International Survey of Specialized Intellectual Property Courts and Tribunals”, International Bar Association, London, 2017.

WERRA Jacques de, “Specialized Intellectual Property Courts - Issues and Challenges”, with contributions by Denis Borges Barbosa and Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa, Hong Xue, Shamnad Basheer and Susan Isiko Štrba, Issue Number 2, ICSTD - CEIPI, Geneva, 2016, p. 56.

HARMS Louis, “La experiencia sudafricana”, in COMITÉ ASESOR SOBRE OBSERVANCIA, Undécima sesión, Ginebra, 5 a 7 de septiembre de 2016, “Mecanismos para resolver controversias de Propiedad Intelectual de forma equilibrada, holística y eficaz. Contribuciones preparadas por el Pakistán, Portugal, la Federación de Rusia, Sudáfrica, Tailandia, el Reino Unido, la Cámara de Comercio Internacional y el Profesor Jacques de Werra, de la Universidad de Ginebra (estudio conjunto de CEIPI-ICTSD)”, WIPO/ACE/11/7, Geneva, 20 de junio de 2016. WERRA Jacques, “Specialized…” cit., ps. 26-27. Nevertheless, South Africa has a “Court of the Commissioner of Patents” with exclusive jurisdiction in patent matters, whose appellations go to an ordinary Appellation Court integrated with at least one specialist Judge in patent subjects.

There are, for example, Courts with different degrees or levels of specialization in Intellectual Property matters, like in Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States of America, France, Kenya, Hong Kong, Holland, Hungary, Israel, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, United Kingdom, Republic of South Korea, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden,

Switzerland, Thailand and Turkey.