"Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements" presents the papers of the sixth IP conference organised by the Macau Institute of European Studies (IEEM) on intellectual property law and the economic challenges for Asia. The objective of the conferences is to provide up-to-date information on developments in global intellectual property law and policy and their impact on regional economic and cultural development. The current volume deals with the implications of free trade agreements for the international framework of intellectual property law, a topic of enormous economic and legal importance given the increasing number of free trade agreements in force or under negotiation.This is a collection of essays that provide up-to-date information on the developments in global intellectual property.The authors have published widely on intellectual property law and are well-respected in their field.This is the fourth volume of the "International Intellectual Property Law" series.