Intellectual Property Law

✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter (Editor)

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Series: Profesional Practice Guides
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This "Intellectual Property Practice Professional Guide" is designed to give apprentice solicitors a clear and thorough understanding of the current intellectual property practice and procedure. In particular, it will delve more intensely into the many areas of IP, such as trade marks, passing off, patents, copyright, databases, computer programs, industrial designs, domain names, licensing, and confidential information. "Intellectual Property" comprehensively deals with the practice issues most frequently encountered by apprentices in this area and incorporates recent developments in law and practice. It explains the principles of Intellectual Property practice clearly and concisely by experts in the field and will prove to be an essential text for both apprentices and practitioners in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
About the Authors......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 10
Table of Cases......Page 14
Table of Legislation......Page 16
1 INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY......Page 22
2 TRADE MARKS......Page 28
3 THE LAW OF PASSING OFF......Page 42
4 PATENTS......Page 52
5 COPYRIGHT 1 THE COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS ACT 2000......Page 74
6 COPYRIGHT 2 THE ENFORCEMENT OF COPYRIGHT......Page 88
7 PROTECTION OF DATABASES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS......Page 96
8 INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS......Page 106
9 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENCES......Page 114
10 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION......Page 128
11 CONCLUSION......Page 136
Index......Page 140