Ebook: Intellectual property
Author: David I Bainbridge
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Longman Pearson
- City: Harlow, England ; New York
- Edition: 8 Pap/Psc
- Language: English
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This book provides undergraduate students with a substantial view of intellectual property law, dealing with principles, academic issues and practical considerations.
Content: Introduction --
Background and basic principles --
Subsistence of copyright --
Authorship and ownership of copyright --
Authors' rights --
Rights, infringement and remedies --
Defences to copyright infringement and the permitted acts --
Copyright and computer software --
Rights in performances --
Law of breach of confidence --
Patent law : background, basic principles and practical aspects --
Requirements for patentability --
Ownership, dealing with patents, safety and security, and Crown use --
Patents : infringement, remedies and criminal offences --
Patents : defences, groundless threats and revocation --
What is a design? --
Community design and the UK registered design --
The UK unregistered design right --
Trade marks : introduction and background --
The UK trade mark : registrability, surrender, revocation and invalidity, property rights and registration --
The UK trade mark : rights, infringement, limitations and defences, remedies and criminal offences --
Community trade mark and the Madrid system --
Passing off and malicious falsehood --
Freedom of movement of goods and EC competition law --
IPR and conflict of laws.
Abstract: This book provides undergraduate students with a substantial view of intellectual property law, dealing with principles, academic issues and practical considerations