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A User's Guide to Patents, Fifth Edition?provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice.
This new edition sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced and addresses wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners. It is essential reading for IP practitioners, solicitors and barristers, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers, management executives and inventors.
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The following relevant developments are included:
Part I - Patents generally
Chapter 1 Introduction to the patent system
Chapter 2 Applying for and securing the grant of a patent
Chapter 3 Transactions with patents and with patent applications
Chapter 4 Procedures in disputes concerning patents
Chapter 5 Patent validity – substantive law
Chapter 6 Patent infringement – substantive law and remedies
Part II - Patents in specific areas of technology
Chapter 7 Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals
Chapter 8 Biotechnology patents
Chapter 9 Patents in electronics, communications, and computing
Part III Appendices
Appendix 1 Adherence to International Patent Treaties (including latest version acceded to, or the accession date)
Appendix 2 Patents Court judgments on validity and infringement since 1997
Appendix 3 Court of Appeal judgments on validity and infringement since 1997
Appendix 4 Further reading
Appendix 5 Patent resources on the Internet
Appendix 6 Legislative materials
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