| Description |
xvi, 253 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 23.Moral and Other Related Rights -- pt. V Miscellaneous Matters -- 24.The Criminal Law -- 25.Confidence and Privacy -- 26.Database Right -- 27.The European Community -- Free Movement and Competition -- 28.Some Aspects of the International Law of Intellectual Property |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction -- 1.Imitation, Monopoly and Control -- 2.Courts, Remedies and Legal Actions -- 3.Patent, Copyright or Design? -- pt. II Protecting the Product -- 4.Patents and How to Get Them -- 5.Important Inventions -- 6.More About Patents -- 7.Industrial Designs -- pt. 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.Community Marks, International Registration of Marks and Well-Known Marks -- 14.Collective and Certification Marks -- 15.Passing-Off -- 16.Malicious Falsehood -- pt. IV Copyright and Related Rights -- 17.Introduction to Copyright -- 18.Works the Subject of Copyright -- 19.Ownership of Copyright -- 20.What is Infringement of Copyright? -- 21.What is not Infringement? -- 22.Dealings in Copyright -- |
| Summary |
This book is aimed not only at law students studying the subject but also at interested users of IP - business people, inventors, scientists, designers and the like. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles which underpin and reguilate the subject, educatuing the reader as to the shape of the law. However, critically, it also gives 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. To achieve its object 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. The authors try wherever possible to be both serious and light-hearted at the same time.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 of this book 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Intellectual property -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Alexander, Daniel (Barrister), author
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Fisher, Matthew, 1976- author
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| LC no. |
2013362284 |
| ISBN |
1849463255 |
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9781849463256 (paperback) |
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