Intellectual Property

• Part One PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1 What are intellectual property rights? 2 Justification for intellectual property rights 3 Sources of intellectual property law 4 Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats Part Two COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS 5 Subsistence and duration of copyright 6 Authorship and ownership of copyright 7 Authors’ rights 8 Owners’ rights, infringement and remedies 9 Dealing with copyright 10 Defences and the permitted acts 11 Orphan works 12 Computer programs 13 Databases 14 Satellite broadcasting 15 Circumvention of effective technological measures 16 Electronic rights management information 17 Rights in performances Part Three RIGHTS IN DESIGNS 18 Introduction to design law 19 Community design 20 The UK registered design 21 The UK unregistered design right Part Four TRADE NAMES, SIGNS, MARKS, GOODWILL AND GET-UP 22 Introduction to trade marks and passing off 23 The UK trade mark – registrability and registration 24 The UK trade mark – grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity 25 The UK trade mark – property rights, surrender and revocation 26 The UK trade mark – rights, infringement and remedies 27 The UK trade mark – limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences 28 The new EU trade mark Directive 29 The European Union trade mark 30 Passing off 31 Malicious falsehood Part Five TRADE SECRETS AND INVENTIONS 32 Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions 33 Trade secrets and the law of confidence 34 Requirements for the grant of a patent 35 Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such) 36 Other exclusions from the grant of a patent 37 Biotechnological patents 38 Entitlement to and dealing with patents 39 Patent infringement and remedies 40 Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender 41 The European patent, unitary patent and the Unified Patents Court Appendix – Useful website addresses Bibliography and further reading Index

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