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Focuses on domestic intellectual property law, while placing it firmly in its international context to allow students to gain a broad and thorough understanding of intellectual property as a global subject
Combines well-chosen extracts from case law and secondary materials with stimulating commentary to give students a wide variety of practical and academic perspectives
Provides an extensive selection of relevant further reading throughout each chapter, which allows students to use the textbook as a springboard for further research

New to this Edition:

Coverage of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and of the implementation of the Trade Secrets Directive (EU) 2016/943
New cases on EU copyright, including reproduction, communication to the public and quotation: Pelham v Hütter; Funke Median NRW GmBH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Spiegel Online v Volker Beck; and Levola Hengelo BV v Smilde Foods BV and Cofomel
Discussion of the Court of Appeal decision on joint authorship in Kogan v Martin
New CJEU rulings in trade marks such as Christian Louboutin v van Haren Schoenen BV and Simba Toys GmbH & Co. KG v EUIPO
The decision on passing off in Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd v Sandoz Ltd
The UK Supreme Court decisions on patent entitlement in Shanks v Unilever; on inventive step in Actavis v ICOS; and on sufficiency in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v Kymab
Consideration of AI technologies in relation to copyright and patent law
Consideration of the impact of Brexit on UK IP law



This book combines extracts from major cases and secondary materials with critical commentary to provide a complete resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of intellectual property law.

All areas of intellectual property law in the UK are covered: copyright, trade marks and passing off, confidential information, industrial designs, patent, procedure and enforcement. This book also tackles topical areas, such as the application of intellectual property law to new technologies and character merchandising. While the focus of the book is on intellectual property law in a domestic context, it provides international, EU and comparative law perspectives on major issues. It also addresses the wider policy implications of legislative and judicial developments in the area.



Table of Contents

1:An introduction to intellectual property
2:Copyright I: history, justifications, sources of law, and subsistence
3:Copyright II: authorship, ownership, exploitation, term, moral rights, and economic rights
4:Copyright III: infringement, exceptions, and database right
5:Passing off
6:Trade marks I: justifications, registration, and absolute grounds for refusal of registration
7:Trade marks II: the relative grounds for refusal of registration, infringement, and remedies
8:Trade marks III: defences, the loss of a trade mark, and exhaustion of rights
9:Breach of confidence
10:Privacy, personality, and publicity
11:Patents I: justifications, registration, patentable subject matter, and industrial application
12:Patents II: novelty, inventive step, sufficiency, and support
13:Patents III: infringement, exceptions, and entitlement
14:Industrial designs