The Modern Law of Patents, 2nd Edition

Author: Ashley Roughton; Phillip Johnson; Trevor Cook
Publisher: LexisNexis U.K.
ISBN: 9781405745185
Published In: June 2010
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: European Union, U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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A second edition of this popular title, first published in 2005 and the first new book on the UK Law of Patents for 25 years. This title is an essential resource for patent lawyers and patent attorneys.

Written by some of the most eminent IP practitioners in the UK, 'The Modern Law of Patents' offers a fresh and comprehensive exposition of the law relating to patents in the UK and Europe. Extensively revised, the second edition of the book covers the following:

* Conception, initial protection, prosecution, expression, validity, transmission, exploitation and infringement

* Laws of patents in other jurisdictions in order to provide guidance as to the laws of those countries in relation to the broad questions of prosecution, validity, competition and infringement

* Detailed coverage of the laws of patents as they relate to computers, pharmaceuticals, Biotechnological inventions and aspects of the laws of competition, criminal and border controls and inventive products and inventive processes as patented inventions

* Guidance in relation to the law of patents from a prosecution and procedural aspect as well as auxiliary aspects (such as human rights and dispositions arising by mere operation of law)

* Materials in paper which provide the statutory and practical basis for the existence and subsistence of patents in the United Kingdom and in relation to prosecution of patent applications in the European Patent Office

Reviews:

"... undeniable quality and authority of content."
European Intellectual Property Review, review of a previous edition

Part 1. The Law of Patents
1. General Introduction
2. Patentablity
3. Exclusions from Patentability
4. Construction of Patents
5. Priority
6. Infringement

Part 2. Transactions, Licensing, Crown Use and Entitlement
7. Entitlement to the patent and employee compensation
8. Ownership of and transactions in patents
9. Licenses of right, compulsory licenses and Crown use

Part 3. Prosecution of Patent Applications
10. Prosecution before the Intellectual Property Office
11. Prosecution before the European Patent Office
12. Prosecution under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
13. Claim Drafting

Part 4. Procedure, Hearings and Arbitration
14. Infringement and revocation proceedings, declarations of non-infringement
15. Hearings and oral proceedings before the Patent Offices
16. Jurisdiction of the English Courts and enforcement of judgments
17. Arbitration of patent disputes

Part 5. Miscellaneous
18. Patents and the law of Competition
19. Border Controls
20. Supplementary protection certificates

Appendices
A. The history of patent law
B. Theory
C. Future developments
Pleadings and precedents
Appendix 1 - United Kingdom Patents Legislation
Appendix 2 - European Patent Convention
Appendix 3 - Patent Cooperation Treaty
Appendix 4 - Supplementary Protection Certificates
Appendix 5 - EU Law
Appendix 6 - Rules of Court
Appendix 7 - Rules of Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
Appendix 8 - International Treaties
Appendix 9 - Patent Agents
Index

Consultant Editor: His Honour Judge Fysh QC, SC, Judge, Patents County Court, London;
General Editors: Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers; Phillip Johnson, Barrister; Trevor Cook, Bird & Bird.
Contributors: Mark Anderson and Victor Warner, Anderson & Co; Richard Davis, Hogarth Chambers; Prof Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary College, London; Ian Karet, Linklaters; Dr Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor, University of Sydney