Intellectual property law

This new textbook on the increasingly topical subject of intellectual property law provides students with a basic understanding of the law of copyright, patents and designs, trademarks, passing-off, and confidentiality. After a general introductory analysis of the concept of intellectual property, there is a clear and comprehensive exposition of the ways in which intellectual property rights are acquired, infringed, and exploited. The text concludes with a general treatment of enforcement of intellectual property rights, litigation, and remedies. The accepted classifications of intellectual property, together with recent extensions of intellectual property rights (databases, plant breeders' rights, supplementary protection certificates etc), are discussed in full. The authors also examine the international, and regional sources of this area of the law, including international treaties, TRIPs, and EC initiatives, as well as the more familiar domestic rules and regulations. In turn, the text integrates the jurisprudence of UK tribunals with the case law of the EPO, the OHIM, the CFI and the ECJ. Intellectual Property Law is a clear, comprehensive, and fully up to date account of this fascinating and rapidly developing area of the law. It will be vital reading for all those studying intellectual property law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.