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This new edition of Intellectual Property offers coverage of all major intellectual property rights and is designed to equip you with a strong understanding of the wealth of domestic, European and international laws at play in this area. This edition has been substantially updated and streamlined to ensure the book best fits the contemporary intellectual property syllabus. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Intellectual Property

• Inside Front Cover


• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Brief Contents


• Contents


• Preface


• Publisher?s acknowledgements


• Table of cases


• Table of legislation


• Glossary


• List of bibliographic abbreviations


• Case and other references and access


• Part One PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS


• 1 What are intellectual property rights?


• Taxonomy of intellectual property rights


• Copyright and related rights


• Rights in designs


• Trade marks, names, signs and ?get-up?


• Trade secrets and inventions


• EU competition law and conflict of laws


• Nature of intellectual property


• Combination of intellectual property rights


• The nature of the study of intellectual property


• Brexit and intellectual property


• Summary


• Discussion questions


• Selected further reading


• 2 Justification for intellectual property rights


• Moral right/natural law right


• Incentive/reward theory


• Contract/consideration theory


• Prevention of deceitful/fraudulent practices


• Abolish intellectual property laws?


• Other issues


• Summary


• Discussion questions


• Selected further reading


• 3 Sources of intellectual property law


• International conventions and treaties


• EU laws


• UK intellectual property laws


• Private international law


• Summary


• Discussion questions


• Selected further reading


• 4 Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats


• Introduction


• The Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights


• Preliminary measures


• Inte