The Convention on International Interests in
Mobile Equipment, adopted in Cape Town in
November 2001 and generally known as the
Cape Town Convention,
has three sets of rules
affecting intangible assets
Rules governing interests in proceeds of
objects to the extent that they take the form
of intangibles - discussed in Section 2.
(2) Rules governing the assignment of
associated rights or their acquisition by
subrogation - discussed in Section 3.
(3) Rules regarding the exercise of remedies
relating to intangibles, examined in
Section 4.
To these sets of rules the Space Protocol adds a
fourth, namely rules relating to the assignment
and reassignment of debtor’s rights and the
recording of such assignment and reassignments.
These are examined in Section