Description

Description

Engaging and innovative, this new textbook uses legal problems to help students quickly grasp core concepts, identify relevant issues, engage with key debates, and apply their learning to real-life contexts.

• Every chapter opens with a problem question which encourages students to engage with each topic through relevant, real-world issues and gain insight into how the law interacts with everyday life and business
• Developed to be a focused, concise textbook but including the detail required to support students on all the key areas of an undergraduate intellectual property law course
• Clear explanations of key concepts in intellectual property law help students to gain a thorough understanding of the subject area
• Case summary boxes allow students to easily pick out the significant facts and details from landmark cases and understand their relevance

Table of Contents

Part 1: Copyright

• 1:Introduction to copyright
• 2:Subsistence of copyright
• 3:Authorship and first ownership
• 4:Infringement of copyright
• 5:Defences
• 6:Moral rights
• 7:Related rights

Part 2: Passing Off

• 8:Passing off

Part 3: Trade marks

• 9:Introduction to trade marks
• 10:Registration of a sign
• 11:Absolute grounds for refusal
• 12:Relative grounds for refusal of registration
• 13: Infringement and loss of registration of trade marks
• 14:Defences to trade mark infringement

Part 4: Patents

• 15:Introduction to patents
• 16:Ownership of patents
• 17:Patentability
• 18:Infringement of patents

Part 5: Confidential Information

• 19:Trade secrets

Part 6: Designs

• 20:Designs

Part 7: Exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights

• 21:Dealings in intellectual property rights

22:Civil and criminal remedies