Trevor Cook is a partner with the London law firm of Bird & Bird and is an established expert in the field of intellectual property law. He specialises in the legal and regulatory issues affecting businesses in the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and information technology sectors. He is the author of numerous leading textbooks and reference works in this field.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Effect of the EC Treaty on National Intellectual Property Rights ; 3. Copyright and Related Rights - Harmonisation ; 4. Trade Marks - Harmonisation of National Rights and Establishment of Unitary Community Right ; 5. Geographical Indications - Establishment of Community Regime ; 6. Industrial Designs - Harmonisation and the Establishment of the Community Design ; 7. Patents, Utility Models and Plant Variety Rights - Partial Harmonisation of Patent Laws and Establishment of Community Regime for Plant Variety Rights ; 8. Semi-conductor Chip Topographies - Harmonisation ; 9. Unfair Competition, Including Under TRIPs, The Protection of Undisclosed information - Partial Harmonisation and Partial Establishment of a Community Regime ; 10. Measures Having Horizontal Effect On Intellectual Property, Including Those Concerning The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights ; 11. Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights ; APPENDIX - TEXTS OF MAIN REGULATIONS AND DIRECTIVES ; INDEX

Apart from the comprehensive coverage and the systematic descriptive analysis one needs to mention another strong point about the book. Each chapter comes accompanied by the relavant legislative texts. The reader therefore immediately has all the references and the whole package to hand. This book does very well in what it sets out to do and it clearly responds to a need in doing so.