Full Description
This book combines extracts from major cases and secondary materials with critical commentary to provide a complete resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of intellectual property law.All areas of intellectual property law in the UK are covered: copyright, trademarks and passing off, confidential information, industrial designs, patent, procedure and enforcement. This book also tackles topical areas, such as the application of intellectual property law to new technologies and character merchandising. While the focus of the book is on intellectual property law in a domestic context, it provides international, EU and comparative law perspectives on major issues. It alsoaddresses the wider policy implications of legislative and judicial developments in the area.
Contents
12: Copyright I: history, justifications, sources of law, and subsistence3: Copyright II: authorship, ownership, exploitation, term, moral rights, and economic rights4: Copyright III: infringement, exceptions, and database right5: Passing off6: Trade marks I: justifications, registration, and absolute grounds for refusal of registration7: Trade marks II: the relative grounds for refusal of registration, infringement, and remedies8: Trade marks III: defences, the loss of a trade mark, and exhaustion of rights9: Breach of confidence10: Privacy, personality, and publicity11: Patents I: justifications, registration, patentable subject matter, and industrial application12: Patents II: novelty, inventive step, sufficiency, and support13: Patents III: infringement, exceptions, and entitlement14: Industrial designs
