Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law

Author: Jose Bellido
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509935109
Published In: January 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This volume explores the nature of intellectual property law by looking at particular disputes that have become landmark cases.

All the cases gathered here aim to show the versatile and unstable character of a discipline still searching for landmarks. Each contribution offers an opportunity to raise questions about the narratives that have shaped the discipline throughout its short but profound history.

The volume begins by revisiting patent litigation to consider the impact of the Statute of Monopolies (1624). It continues looking at different controversies to describe how the existence of an author's right in literary property was a plausible basis for legal argument, even though no statute expressly mentioned authors' rights before the Statute of Anne (1710).

The collection also explores different moments of historical significance for intellectual property law: the first trade mark injunctions; the difficulties copyright law faced when protecting maps; and the everlasting confusion around the meaning of originality.

Similarly, it considers the different ways of interpreting patent claims in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the impact of seminal cases on passing off and the law of confidentiality; and more generally, the construction of intellectual property law and its branches in their interaction with new technologies and marketing developments. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the landmarks and development of intellectual property law.
1-Mansell v Bunger (1626) Sean Bottomley
2-Stationers v Seymour (1677) H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui
3-Sayer v Moore (1785) Isabella Alexander
4-Day v Day (1816) Lionel Bently
5-Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited v Anderson (1894) Seymour Mauskopf
6-Walter v Lane (1900) Barbara Lauriat
7-Spalding v Gamage (1915) Hazel Carty
8-King Features Syndicate Inc and Betts v O & M Kleemann (1940) Jose Bellido
9-Slee & Harris's Application (1966) Brad Sherman
10-Coco v Clark (1969) Tanya Aplin
11-Biogen v Medeva (1996) Luke McDonagh
12-R v Johnstone (2003) Elena Cooper
13-Lego Juris A/S v OHIM (2010) Alain Pottage