Guidebook to Intellectual Property, 7th Edition

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“This book is a classic... its style and content remain invaluable.” Entertainment Law Review

This is the new edition of a unique book about intellectual property. It is for those new to the subject, both law students and others such as business people needing some idea of the subject. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles, educating the reader as to the shape of the law. Critically, it also gives an insight into how the system actually works. You cannot understand chess by merely learning the rules – you also have to know how the game is played: so too with intellectual property.

The authors deliberately avoid technicalities: keeping things simple, yet direct. There are no footnotes to distract. Although cases are, inevitably, referred to, they are explained in a pithy, accessible manner.

All major areas of IP – patents, trade marks, copyright and designs – are covered, along with briefer treatment of other rights and subjects such as breach of confidence, plant varieties and databases.

A novice reader 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.
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. EU Trade Marks, 'International' Registration and Well-Known Marks
14. Collective Marks, Certification Marks and Geographical Indications
15. Passing Off
16. Malicious Falsehood and Other Actions

PART IV
COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
17. Introduction to Copyright
18. Works: The Subject of Copyright
19. Authorship, Ownership and Term 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 and Customs Seizure
25. Confidence and Privacy
26. Database Right
27. Reselling IP-Protected Goods: Licence or Exhaustion of Rights
28. Some International Aspects and Competition Law
Sir Robin Jacob is currently the Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University College London, having left the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in May 2011. Sir Robin started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1981 and was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003 and continues to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and sometimes acts as an arbitrator or mediator.

Daniel Alexander QC is a barrister at 8 New Square Chambers and a visiting Professor at University College London. His practice covers litigation in intellectual property cases, including IT and media/entertainment cases, competition, EC, commercial and administrative law.

Matthew Fisher is a Senior Lecturer in Law at University College London, where he teaches and researches in intellectual property law, with a special interest in patents. Since 2002 he has been a visiting lecturer in IP at the University of Hong Kong.