Intellectual Property offers unrivalled coverage of all major intellectual property rights and is designed to equip you with a strong understanding of the wealth of domestic, European and international laws at play in this area.
This tenth edition has been substantially updated and streamlined to ensure the book best fits the contemporary intellectual property syllabus. Key updates to the new edition include:
· Significant restructuring to reduce the length of each chapter without compromising on coverage of each topic.
· A revised chapter structure which maps closely to the structure of a typical intellectual property module.
· Discussion on the creation of a European patent with unitary effect and a Unified Patents Court.
· Coverage of the new codifying trade mark regulation and the trade mark directive requiring implementation in 2019.
· An outline of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017.
· Consideration of the potential wide-ranging effects of Brexit in relation to intellectual property rights and protections.
Part One PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
1 What are intellectual property rights?
2 Justification for intellectual property rights
3 Sources of intellectual property law
4 Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats
Part Two COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
5 Subsistence and duration of copyright
6 Authorship and ownership of copyright
7 Authors' rights
8 Owners' rights, infringement and remedies
9 Dealing with copyright
10 Defences and the permitted acts
11 Orphan works
12 Computer programs
13 Databases
14 Satellite broadcasting
15 Circumvention of effective technological measures
16 Electronic rights management information
17 Rights in performances
Part Three RIGHTS IN DESIGNS
18 Introduction to design law
19 Community design
20 The UK registered design
21 The UK unregistered design right
Part Four TRADE NAMES, SIGNS, MARKS, GOODWILL AND GET-UP
22 Introduction to trade marks and passing off
23 The UK trade mark - registrability and registration
24 The UK trade mark - grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity
25 The UK trade mark - property rights, surrender and revocation
26 The UK trade mark - rights, infringement and remedies
27 The UK trade mark - limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences
28 The new EU trade mark Directive
29 The European Union trade mark
30 Passing off
31 Malicious falsehood
Part Five TRADE SECRETS AND INVENTIONS
32 Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions
33 Trade secrets and the law of confidence
34 Requirements for the grant of a patent
35 Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such)
36 Other exclusions from the grant of a patent
37 Biotechnological patents
38 Entitlement to and dealing with patents
39 Patent infringement and remedies
40 Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender
41 The European patent, unitary patent and the Unified Patents Court
Appendix - Useful website addresses
Bibliography and further reading
Index
