The 1990s will be remembered as an era of prodigious expansion in world trade. Suddenly - for reasons encompassing irresistible new on-line technology, a vastly greater geographic reach, - the old intellectual property (IP) laws and protocols long respected by international business became woefully inadequate. As a result, this one-volume introduction to the new global regime of IP law has been written. The text provides business lawyers everywhere with the organized materials and expert commentary they need to protect IP rights on a global scale - and provides law students with an authoritative annotated survey of the relevant conventions, treaties, and laws both regional and national, as well as significant court interpretations in various jurisdictions.