Introduction : framing the law of nations in intellectual property in the nineteenth century / P. Sean Morris -- The key historical influences leading to the Paris convention for the protection of industrial property of 1883 / Louise J. Duncan -- Challenging the normative impact of technological innovation from the norm development process of the Paris convention to global patent justice / Johannes Thumfart -- Innovation diplomacy international exhibitions and the rise of innovation in the law of nations / P. Sean Morris -- Mr Patent Goes to War! Industrial property and the breakdown of the international order during World War I / Phillip Johnson -- Stuck in a waltz the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its imperial method to the Berne Convention / Péter Munkácsi -- The man behind the curtain developing film's double exposure of intellectual property / Johanna Gibson -- The untold story of the First Copyright Statute of China exploring the 1910 Copyright Code of the Great Qing Dynasty / Jyh-An Lee and Yangzi Li -- The crystallization of international norms a case study on diffusion of trademark norms in early-20th century China / Ainee Adam -- The unusual extension of imperial intellectual property laws to colonies in Africa / Daniel Opoku Acquah -- Early American Federal Trademark Law and the Law of Nations / Zvi S. Rosen -- The transforming face of terroir Unde Venis geographical indications? / Devanshi Saxena and Esther van Zimmeren.