
Intellectual Property
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- 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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