Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks & Allied Rights

Long established as the leading textbook in this area of law, Cornish and Llewelyn Intellectual Property provides up to date and authoritative coverage of the whole spectrum of IP law as it applies to the UK.

• Goes through the main types of IP chapter by chapter, making it easy for the reader to find what they are looking for
• Explains what the different types are and the common grounds they share
• Includes chapters on IP rights under EU law, IP and personal privacy, IP and digital technology, IP and biotechnology
• Enables understanding of the text with supporting cases, references and explanatory narrative putting everything in to context
• Draws on legislation from UK, EU and international sources
• Includes coverage of key legislative and case law developments
• Contains tables including European Legislation and International Treaties, Conventions and Agreements

CONTENTS

• Part One: Common Ground
• Starting Points
• The Enforcement of Rights
• Part Two: Patents
• Growth and Purpose of Patents
• The Patent Grant and Content
• Validity
• Scope of Monopoly
• Property Rights and Exploitation
• Part Three: Confidence and Personal Privacy
• Confidential Information
• Personal Privacy
• Part Four: Copyright and Designs
• Range and Aims of Copyright
• Substance of Copyright
• Infringement of Copyright and Moral Rights
• Property Rights and Exploitation
• Copyright: Particular Cases
• Industrial Designs
• Part Five: Trade Marks and Names
• Competitor and Consumer
• Registered Trade Marks
• Part Six: The European Dimension and New Technologies
• Intellectual Property in the European Union
• Digital Technology: Computers and The Internet
• Intellectual Property and Biotechnology
• Appendices
• Competition Law
• Joint Interests in Marks, Names and Symbols
• Plant varieties

REVIEWSThe book is essential for all serious students of the field. EIPR
This book continues to be one of the key titles in this field. New Law Journal