Client-attorney privilege in intellectual property matters: additional observations

Unfortunately, the law of privilege in common-law countries applies clearly only to communications between local legal advisers and their clients. This is a major problem for litigants in intellectual property disputes because of their unusually international character and because of the close similarity between intellectual property laws of different countries.Our main aim in this paper is to explain the nature of the problem and, most importantly, the feasibility of an international instrument as a solution to the problem. We begin by setting out the problem, and then proceed to answer the questions which some delegations have raised.