A Guidebook to Intellectual Property: Patents, Trade Marks, C

This book, totally revamped since the last edition, explains the basic principles of intellectual property in an approachable and straightforward manner.

• Covers all the core areas of patents, trade marks, registered designs and copyright
• Designed for both law students and those who need an accessible introduction to intellectual property law
• The fifth edition incorporates a section on the Internet, and a section on international aspects of intellectual property
• Details developments in patent, trade mark and copyright law, developments in database rights and new European design rights, and developments in rights of privacy

• Patents and how to get them
• Important inventions
• Crown rights and security
• Different degrees of protections
• What registered marks are for
• How to register a mark in trade mark law
• Certification and Collective trademarks
• Passing-off
• Slander of goods
• The criminal law
• Copyright
• Infringement
• Design right
• Confidence
• Moral rights
• Free movement and competition in the EU
• International aspects of IP
• IP and the internet
• Future developments and further reading