Intellectual Property Law Text, Cases, and Materials

by Aplin, Tanya; Davis, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780199271573
• ISBN10: 0199271577
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book provides a complete resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of intellectual property law. It is designed to be the first of its kind, in combining extracts from major cases and secondary materials with critical commentary from experienced teachers in the field. The book deals with all areas of intellectual property law in the UK: copyright, trade marks and passing off, confidential information, industrial designs, patent, industrial designs, procedure and enforcement. It also tackles topical areas, such as the application of IP law to new technologies and character merchandising. While the focus of the book is on IP law in a domestic context, it provides international, EU and comparative law perspectives on major issues. It also addresses the wider policy implications of legislative and judicial developments in the area. It is an ideal resource for all students of intellectual property law who need cases, materials and commentary in a single volume.

Author Biography

Dr Tanya Aplin is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law at King's College London. She is the author of 'Copyright Law in the Digital Society: the challenges of multimedia' (Hart, 2005) and has published extensively on copyright law and confidential information. Dr Jennifer Davis is the Herchel Smith College Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She is the author of 'Intellectual Property Law' in the Core Text Series, and has published extensively in the area of trade mark law and brands, unfair competition and publicity rights.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Intellectual Property

Copyright I: Subsistence, ownership and exploitation

Copyright II: Infringement and exceptions

Passing off

Trade Marks I: Justifications, registration, and absolute grounds for refusal of registration

Trade Marks II: The relative grounds for refusal of registration, infringement, defences, and exhaustion of rights

Character merchandising and publicity rights

Breach of confidence

Patents I: Validity

Patents II: Infringement, exceptions, entitlement

Industrial design

Intellectual property and information technologies

Intellectual property in action

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