Intellectual property law
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Intellectual property law
Oxford University Press, c2009
3rd ed
- : pbk
Available at 18 libraries
Note
First published 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Bently and Sherman's Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on intellectual property law. The book's all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off and confidentiality, it also takes account of a wide range of academic opinion enabling readers to explore and make informed judgments about the key principles. The authors' particularly clear and lively writing style ensures that even the most complex areas are lucid and comprehensible, and the text is further enlivened with illustrations and diagrams.
This edition: - includes further illustrations and diagrams to help aid reader understanding and illustrate key concepts - includes a sample patent application to help students understand this particularly complex topic - takes account of the latest changes in the field, including the implementation of performers' moral rights, the implementation of the EC enforcement directive, and the EC directive on artists' resale royalty - examines developments in case law at the ECJ, particularly in relation to trade marks and databases - accomodates developments in TRIPS interpretation In short, any serious scholar of intellectual property law, along with practitioners working in the area, will find that this book is an invaluable mine of information on all topics relating to IP law.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- PART I COPYRIGHT
- 2. Introduction to copyright
- 3. Subject matter
- 4. Criteria for protection
- 5. Authorship and first ownership
- 6. Nature of the rights
- 7. Duration of copyright
- 8. Infringement
- 9. Defences
- 10. Moral rights
- 11. Exploitation and use of copyright
- 12. Limits on exploitation
- 13. Related rights: performer's rights, database right, technological measures, rights management, information, public lending right, and the droit de suite
- PART II PATENTS
- 14. Introduction to patents
- 15. The nature of a patent
- 16. Procedure for grant of a patent
- 17. Patentable subject matter
- 18. Novelty
- 19. Inventive step
- 20. Internal requirements for patentability
- 21. Ownership
- 22. Infringement
- 23. Exploitation
- 24. Rights related to patents
- PART III THE LEGAL REGULATION OF DESIGNS
- 25. Acquiring registered design protection in the United Kingdom and the European Community
- 26. The Community concept of design
- 27. Grounds for invalidity: novelty, individual character, and relative grounds
- 28. The rights of a proprietor of a UK registered design, a registered Community design, and unregistered Community design
- 29. Copyright protection for designs
- 30. Unregistered design right
- PART IV TRADE MARKS AND PASSING OFF
- 31. Introduction to passing off and trade marks
- 32. Passing off
- 33. Misrepresentation
- 34. Damage
- 35. Trade mark registration
- 36. Subject matter
- 37. Absolute grounds for refusal
- 38. Relative grounds for refusal
- 39. Revocation
- 40. Infringement
- 41. Trade mark defences
- 42. Exploitation and use of trade marks
- 43. Geographical indications of origin
- PART V CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
- 44. Is the information capable of being protected?
- 45. Obligation of confidence
- 46. Breach, defences, and remedies
- PART VI LITIGATION AND REMEDIES
- 47. Litigation
- 48. Civil and criminal remedies
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