Intellectual property / David I. Bainbridge

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What are intellectual property rights -- Justification for intellectual property rights -- Sources of intellectual property law -- Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats -- Subsistence and duration of copyright -- Authorship and ownership of copyright -- Authors' rights -- Owners' rights, infringement and remedies -- Dealing with copyright -- Defences and the permitted acts -- Orphan works -- Computer programs -- Databases -- Satellite broadcasting -- Circumvention of effective technological measures -- Electronic rights management information -- Rights in performances -- Introduction to design law -- Community design -- The UK registered design -- The UK unregistered design right -- Introduction to trade marks and passing off -- The UK trade mark : registrability and registration -- The UKtrade mark : grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity -- The UK trade mark : property rights, surrender and revocation -- The UK trade mark : rights, infringement and remedies -- The UK trade mark : limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences -- The new EU trade mark directive -- The European Union trade mark -- Passing off -- Malicious falsehood -- Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions -- Trade secrets and the law of confidence -- Requirements for the grant of a patent -- Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such) -- Other exclusions from the grant of a patent -- Biotechnological patents -- Entitlement to and dealing with patents -- Patent infringement and remedies -- Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender -- The European patent, unitary patent and unified patents court.

This new edition of Intellectual Property offers coverage of all major intellectual property rights and is designed to equip you with a strong understanding of the wealth of domestic, European and international laws at play in this area. This edition has been substantially updated and streamlined to ensure the book best fits the contemporary intellectual property syllabus.

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