Revisiting Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law: Ten Years Later

In 2016, I defended my dissertation on Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law. This was before the Unified Patent Court began operating with pan-European jurisdiction and national courts determined global FRAND rates, and before non-fungible tokens (NFTs), virtual worlds and generative AI had entered our daily lives. International trade in intellectual property-related goods and services was however in full swing, and courts were grappling with the application of the territoriality principle of intellectual property (IP) law and how it affected their jurisdiction.