Dr. Baer’s Introduction to Intellectual Property

Dr Baer’s Introduction to Intellectual Property Law is a rare, one-of-a-kind book on intellectual property (IP) law. It is not only authoritative and engaging but also thorough, deeply knowledgeable, insightful, packed with revealing examples from many jurisdictions and presented with extraordinary scope and depth.

The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with the justification and fabric of IP law, the second with international agreements in the field. The author shows how domestic concepts have made their way into international agreements and vice versa. The third part provides three ‘mock trials’, or moot court competitions, that highlight real-life IP law fact patterns in a cordial yet competitive setting.

With detailed attention to every kind of IP right and the evolution of the law on each, the author disentangles the complexities of IP law in the following aspects:

• IP rights as lawful restrictions on the public domain;
• contribution of IP rights to society;
• justification and limits for individual IP rights;
• Concepts of intellectual property as expressed in the Paris and Berne Conventions, and the TRIPS Agreement;
• rights conferred and infringing acts;
• appropriate remedies;
• international private law (conflict of laws) and international jurisdiction; and
• IP and competition law.
• The intricate relationship between IP law and such civil law concepts as property, contracts, tort, and unjust
• enrichment is especially highlighted.

With its thorough guidance on both the concepts of IP law in general and on its specific fields – and for its comprehensive description of the scope, limits, and enforcement of IP rights in the digital age – practitioners will obtain a critical and systematic understanding of IP law and approach any IP case with a clear understanding of basic concepts and how to apply them. Policymakers and academics in the field will greatly appreciate the book’s eminently readable but penetrating clarification of the legal nature of IP rights.