Intellectual Property and the Internal Market of the European Community

Name: Intellectual Property and the Internal Market of the European Community
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Peter Groves Anthony Martino(Author)

Kluwer Law International (Publisher)

Published on 1. January 2001

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Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Intellectual Property and 1992
A. HOW IT ALL BEGAN
1. Common Market, National Rights
2. Intellectual Property in the Community
3. The Legislative Solution
4. The judicial solution
B. APPLYING THE TREATY TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
1. Introduction
2. Existence and exercise in the early competition cases
3. Problems with the distinction
4. Free movement of goods and intellectual property
5. Exhaustion of Patent Rights
6. Exhaustion of copyright
7. Exhaustion of trade mark rights
8. Common origin of trade marks
9. Intellectual property and abuse of a dominant position
10. Intellectual property licensing
11. Conclusion
CHAPTER 2 Patents
A. INTRODUCTION
B. A HARMONISED PATENT SYSTEM
1. Introduction
2. Completing the internal market
3. Strasbourg Convention on Harmonisation of Substantive Points of Patent Law
4. European Patent Convention
5. Community Patent Convention
C. THE EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION
1. Introduction
2. Interpretation
3. Claims drafting
4. Patentability
5. Novelty
6. Inventive height or non-obviousness
7. Infringement
8. Procedure
9. Conclusion
D. COMMUNl1Y PATENT CONVENTION
1. History
2. The Convention
3. Litigation
4. Infringement
5. Exhaustion
6. Compulsory licences
7. National laws
8. Spain and Portugal
9. Conclusion
E. DRAFT DIRECTIVE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENTS
1. Introduction
2. Patentability of living matter
3. Scope of protection
4. Dependency licences
5. Deposit and burden of proof
F. EXTENSION OF PATENT TERM FOR PHARMACEUTICAL INVENTIONS
G. PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS
CHAPTER 3 Trade Marks and 1992
A. INTRODUCTION
B. THE MADRID AGREEMENT
1. Introduction
2. Central registration
3. Central attack
4 Grounds for refusal or invalidation
5. Reform of the Madrid Agreement
6. The Madrid Agreement and the Community Trade Mark
7. The Protocol to the Madrid Agreement and UK law
C. THE DIRECTIVE
1. Reform of UK Trade Mark Law
2. The Community Trade Mark
3. The Directive
4. Registrar's discretion
5. Rights and infringement
6. Defensive registrations and use of trade marks
7. Unregistered trade marks
8. Marks registered by an agent
9. Consequences of acquiescence
10. Acts constituting infringement
11. Proceedings for infringement
12. Limitation on scope of marks
13. Exhaustion of rights
14. Transitional provisions
15. Registration procedures
16. Duration of registration and renewal
17. Classification of goods and services
18. Consequences of the nonuse of a mark
19. Cancellation of registered marks
20. Licensing the marks
21. Character merchandising
22. Assignment of associated trade marks
23. Collective, guarantee and certification marks
D. EC TRADE MARKS REGULATION
1. Introduction
2. Applying for a Community Trade Mark
3. Surrender, revocation and invalidity
4. Appeals
5. Information
6. Community marks and national marks
7. Jurisdiction and procedure
8. Effects on laws of Member States
9. Symbol
10. The Office
E. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 4 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights
A. INTRODUCTION
B. "COPYRIGHT AND THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY
1. The nature of the Green Paper
2. The follow-up
C. COMPUTER SOflWARE
1. Introduction
2. What is protected?
3. Interoperability
4. Ownership
5. The owner's rights
6. Permitted acts
7. Secondary infringement
8. Implementation
D. DATABASES
1. Introduction
2. The draft Directive
E. THE BERNE AND ROME CONVENTIONS
F. TERM OF PROTECTION
G. PIRACY
1. Introduction
2. Community action
3. Neighbouring rights
H. HOME COPYING
I. RENTAL RIGHT
1. Introduction
2. The Draft Directive
J. BROADCASTING AND CABLE RE1RANSMISSION
1. Introduction
2. Satellite
3. Cable
K. FURTHER INITIATIVES
1. Moral Rights
2. Reprography
3. Resale rights
CHAPTER 5 Designs
A. INTRODUCTION
B. THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF DESIGNS
1. National laws
2. International Conventions
3. EC proposals
C. DESIGN PROTECTION IN THE MEMBER STATES
1. Introduction
2. Registered designs
3. Copyright
4. Special laws
5. Cumulation
6. The Regulation
7. Exclusive rights
8. Validity
9. Entitlement
10. Dealings in Community designs
11. Applying for a Community design
12. Invalidity
13. Appeals
14. Conversion into national application
15. Litigation
16. Effects on laws of Member States
17. The Office
D. THE DIRECTIVE
1. The need for national protection
2. The provisions of the directive
E. THE NEXT STEP
CHAPTER 6 Chips
A. INTRODUCTION
B. US LAW
C. THE DIRECTIVE
APPENDIX 1 CONVENTION FOR THE EUROPEAN PATENT FOR THE COMMON MARKET
APPENDIX 2 PROTOCOL ON THE SETTLEMENT OF LITIGATION CONCERNING THE INFRINGEMENT AND VALIDITY OF COMMUNITY PATENTS
APPENDIX 3 Proposal for a Council Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
APPENDIX 4 FIRST COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws 'of the Member States relating to trade marks (89/104/EEC)
APPENDIX 5 Amended proposal for a Council Regulation on the Community trade mark COM(84) 470 final
APPENDIX 6 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs (91/250/EEC)
APPENDIX 7 Proposal for a Council Directive harmonizing the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (92/C 92/06)
APPENDIX 8 Proposal for a Council Directive on the legal protection of databases (92/C 156/03)
APPENDIX 9 COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 14 May 1992 on increased protection for copyright and neighbouring rights (92/C 138/01)
APPENDIX 10 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 16 December 1986 on the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products (87/54/EEC)
APPENDIX 11 List of Contracting States to the Patent Co-operation Treaty
APPENDIX 12 List of Members of the Hague Agreement 1990
APPENDIX 13 List of Members of the Madrid Agreement
APPENDIX 14 List of Signatories to the Protocol to the Madrid Agreement
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