Guidebook to Intellectual Property

ISBN-13: 9781849463256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str.

Sir Robin Jacob

Opis

This unique book about intellectual property (IP) is aimed not only at law students studying the subject, but at interested users of IP, including business people, inventors, scientists, designers, and others. The book not only provides an outline of the basic legal principles of IP, but also shows how the system actually works. One cannot understand chess by merely learning the rules, one must know how the game is played - so, also, with IP. To achieve its objective, the book deliberately avoids technicalities and keeps things simple, yet direct. There are no footnotes to distract. Cases are referred to in a concise, accessible manner. All the major areas of IP - patents, trade marks, copyright, and design - are covered, along with brief mention of other rights, such as those in plant varieties and databases. A novice reader of this book 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. Previously published by Sweet & Maxwell as A Guidebook to Intellectual Property: Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs (ISBN 978 0 421 79980 6; 2003), this sixth edition is now available from Hart Publishing, Oxford.

Spis treści

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 Community Marks, International Registration of Marks and Well-Known Marks 14 Collective and Certification Mars 15 Passing-Off 16 Malicious Falsehood Part IV Copyright and Related Rights 17 Introduction to Copyright 18 Works the Subject of Copyright 19 Ownership 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 25 Confidence and Privacy 26 Database Right 27 The European Community – Free Movement and Competition 28 Some Aspects of the International Law of Intellectual Property