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This thesis is about Intellectual Property and Financial Markets Law in comparative context – differences and similarities between the European Union and the United States in Patent Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law, Banking Law, and Securities Law. Therefore, the covered areas of law are: Differences and similarities between the European Union and the United States in financial markets law: banking law, and securities law. Differences and similarities between the European Union and the United States in intellectual property law: patent law, copyright law, and trademark law. The thesis offers a fairly comprehensive yet summarized analysis of the differences and similarities of the EU and the U.S. in the fields of financial markets law and intellectual property law. This thesis can serve as a general overview to business people, policy makers, lawyers and judges dealing with the covered areas of law. For instance, corporate lawyers considering whether to initiate the IPO process in the U.S. or within the EU in his/her client’s behalf, companies considering the pros and cons of either filing for a patent in the U.S. or in an EU member state, and so forth could find the insights from this comparative study useful. This 80 pages thesis does not naturally replace seeking legal advice from experts in financial markets law and intellectual property law, since all the nuances of financial markets law and intellectual property law could not be covered in this study. This thesis can also be useful for legal scholars since the approach adopted in this study to include more than a legal concept or field of law exemplifies that conducting comparison on a wider scale, ‘meso-level comparison’, can be a fruitful approach to gain an overall picture of the differences and similarities of fields of law while enabling comparisons both within regions/countries as well as within fields of law themselves. Such additional comparative aspect can under some circumstances lead to unanticipated yet useful insights that might have otherwise been overlooked. For example, due to this approach one of the findings of this study among others includes that similarities in financial markets law and intellectual property law are partly explained by international harmonization efforts.