Intellectual Property

by David I . Bainbridge (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $8.15

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.29

  The fourth edition of this leading textbook has been brought fully up to date with recent statutory and common law changes. The book provides undergraduate students with a substantial view of intellectual property law, dealing with principles, academic issues and practical considerations. The book is fully referenced by way of marginal notes, and diagrams, tables and facsimile documents are interspersed within the text. The author gives an historical background to the current statutory and common law and analyses the grey areas revealed as English law struggles to keep up with technological change and European harmonisation. *The copyright section now covers the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996, in addition to recent cases and developments on jurisdiction and the Privy Council decision in Canon v Green Cartridge. *The patents section has been substantially enlarged and includes material on the Technology Transfer Regulation and the House of Lords' decisions in Biogen v Medeva and Merrell Dow v Norton, and the proposal for a utility model form of protection. *The design law section includes discussion of recent