Intellectual Property in New Technological Age

by Merges, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780735569898
• ISBN10: 0735569894
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-25
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

Summary

Known for its broad, accessible coverage of both traditional and cutting-edge issues, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age is the cornerstone of a proven teaching package. Strengthened and refined through years of successful classroom use, The casebook: covers the full range of legal protections for intellectual property: trade secret, patent law, copyright law, trademarks/trade dress, state and federal intellectual property protections, protections for computer software, and a general overview of antitrust law integrates cases and materials with challenging practice problems is enriched by a law and economics perspective that provides students with an analytical tool for a meaningful examination of the subject offers outstanding treatment of new media issues, such as computer software is reinforced by an annual statutory and case supplement which includes an introduction to biotechnology as well as all of the latest legal developments in IP features an extremely helpful Teacher's Manual with alternative syllabi for teaching the book in three- and four-credit comprehensive courses Look for this important new material in the Fourth Edition: coverage of the Supreme Court's decision in Ebay v. MercExchange and its effect on patent remedies many new problems and updated references to scholarly literature Companion Website: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/ipnta/