Russell-Clarke on Industrial Designs

Russell Clarke on Industrial Designs is acknowledged as the most established reference source on Industrial Designs. It now forms part of Sweet & Maxwell?s world renowned "Intellectual Property Library".

Dedicated
Few books can rival the dedicated coverage that Russell Clarke gives to design rights and copyright protection of designs. It begins with a clear explanation of the development of design protection and goes on to discuss registered and unregistered design rights, copyright protection, infringement and remedies in unrivalled detail.

Expert
Martin Howe Q.C. is a barrister at 8 New Square, the largest set of chambers practising in IP in the UK. He specialises in all areas of Intellectual Property, including patents, trade marks and copyrights. He is a joint editor with the Hon. Justice Jacob of the 1984 and 1995 editions of Halsbury's Laws on Trade Marks, Trade Names and Designs. Martin Howe Q.C. is a member of the Patent and Chancery Bar Associations.

Current
The growing amount of EC law and burgeoning of trade on a global basis means that companies must not only be aware of threats to their intellectual property, but also the ever more complex legislation surrounding it. The reproduction of all the relevant legislation that covers design ensures that practitioners have a complete, one stop, reference source on the area.

User-Friendly
The design is the fundamental concept on which a product is based. But a single design may be protected by one or more different kinds of design right. Russell Clarke helps the reader through the legal maze, lucidly explaining and disentangling the different coverage of registered and unregistered design rights, and of copyright relating to the design of industrial actions.