Full Description
"This book is a classic... its style and content remain invaluable." Entertainment Law Review
This is the new edition of a unique book about intellectual property. It is for those new to the subject, both law students and others such as business people needing some idea of the subject. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles, educating the reader as to the shape of the law. Critically, it also gives an insight into how the system actually works. You cannot understand chess by merely learning the rules - you also have to know how the game is played: so too with intellectual property.
The authors deliberately avoid technicalities: keeping things simple, yet direct. There are no footnotes to distract. Although cases are, inevitably, referred to, they are explained in a pithy, accessible manner.
All major areas of IP - patents, trade marks, copyright and designs - are covered, along with briefer treatment of other rights and subjects such as breach of confidence, plant varieties and databases.
A novice reader should come away both with a clear outline of IP law and a feeling for how it works. Students will be able to put their more detailed study into perspective. Users will be able to understand better how IP affects them and their businesses.
Contents
PART I
INTRODUCTION
1. Imitation, Monopoly and Control
2. Courts, Remedies and Legal Actions
3. Patent, Copyright or Design?
PART II
PROTECTING THE PRODUCT
4. Patents and How to Get Them
5. Important Inventions
6. More about Patents
7. Industrial Designs
PART III
TRADE MARKS, PASSING OFF AND UNFAIR COMPETITION
8. Trade Marks and Passing Off
9. Trade Mark Registration
10. Trade Mark Infringement
11. Exceptions to Trade Mark Infringement
12. Removal from the Register - Revocation and Invalidity
13. EU Trade Marks, 'International' Registration and Well-Known Marks
14. Collective Marks, Certification Marks and Geographical Indications
15. Passing Off
16. Malicious Falsehood and Other Actions
PART IV
COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
17. Introduction to Copyright
18. Works: The Subject of Copyright
19. Authorship, Ownership and Term of Copyright
20. What Is Infringement of Copyright?
21. What Is Not Infringement?
22. Dealings in Copyright
23. Moral and Other Related Rights
PART V
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
24. The Criminal Law and Customs Seizure
25. Confidence and Privacy
26. Database Right
27. Reselling IP-Protected Goods: Licence or Exhaustion of Rights
28. Some International Aspects and Competition Law
