Intellectual Property Law: 3rd Edition

by Lionel Bently (Author), Brad Sherman (Author), Lionel Bently (Author), Brad Sherman (Author)

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  2008

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  Bently and Sherman's Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on intellectual property law. The book's all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off and confidentiality, it also takes account of a wide range of academic opinion enabling readers to explore and make informed judgments about the key principles. The authors' particularly clear and lively writing style ensures that even the most complex areas are lucid and comprehensible, and the text is further enlivened with illustrations and diagrams. This edition: - includes further illustrations and diagrams to help aid reader understanding and illustrate key concepts - includes a sample patent application to help students understand this particularly complex topic - takes account of the latest changes in the field, including the implementation of performers' moral rights, the implementation of the EC enforcement directive, and the EC directive on artists' resale royalty - examines developments in case law at the ECJ, particularly in relation to trade marks and databases - accomodates developments in TRIPS interpretation In short, any serious scholar of intellectual property law, along with practitioners working in the area, will find that this book is an invaluable mine of information on all topics relating to IP law.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.28

  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.