Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to copyright
  • Subject matter
  • Criteria for protection
  • Authorship and first ownership
  • Nature of the rights
  • Duration of copyright
  • Infringement
  • Defences
  • Moral rights
  • Exploitation and use of copyright
  • Limits on exploitation
  • Related rights : performers' rights, database right, technological protection measures, rights management information, public lending right, and the droit de suite
  • Introduction to patents
  • The nature of a patent
  • Procedure for grant of a patent
  • Patentable subject matter
  • Novelty
  • Inventive step
  • Internal requirements for patentability
  • Ownership
  • Infringement
  • Exploitation
  • Rights related to patents
  • Acquiring registered design protection in the United Kingdom and the European Community
  • The community concept of design
  • Grounds for invalidity : novelty, individual character, and relative grounds
  • The rights of a proprietor of a UK registered design, a registered community design, and an unregistered community design
  • Copyright protection for designs
  • Unregistered design right
  • Introduction to passing off and trade marks
  • Passing off
  • Misrepresentation
  • Damage
  • Trade mark registration
  • Subject matter
  • Absolute grounds for refusal
  • Relative grounds for refusal
  • Revocation
  • Infringement
  • Trade mark defences
  • Exploitation and use of trade marks
  • Geographical indications of origin
  • Is the information capable of being protected?
  • Obligation of confidence
  • Breach, defences, private nformation, and remedies
  • Litigation
  • Civil and criminal remedies.