This book presents updated and completely revised chapters originally presentedin the context of a workshop on 'Intellectual property enforcement in the Asia-Pacific region' at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies inAsia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) at the University of Wollongong in December2007. The workshop was supported by the Centre of Excellence for CreativeIndustries and Innovation (CCI) of the Australian Research Council (ARC) andby the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law,Munich. I would like to thank Professor Stuart Cunningham at CCI and ProfessorReto Hilty at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, for supporting this project, GabrielGarcia and Marjam Ita for their assistance with the organisation of the workshopand Elaine Newby for many hours of proof reading and editorial assistance.