To paraphrase Bob Dylan, on the Budokan album (recorded in 1978), "I wrote this book, uh, about 10 years ago ... still means a lot to me, hope it means a lot to you." It's not Blowin' in the Wind, but it still has its uses. This is the third edition, and publishing it this way means there's never going to be any need to produce a fourth.
Here is the list of contents, with hyperlinks to the individual chapters. Some of them have health warnings until I get them up to date: today (13 May 2014) I have uploaded the five patents chapters, which leaves onlt database right and the last two chapters to bring up to date. And here for starters is a document I call an IP Roadmap, which gives you the very, very basics of IP law on one side of A4.
-->Here is the list of contents, with hyperlinks to the individual chapters. Some of them have health warnings until I get them up to date: today (13 May 2014) I have uploaded the five patents chapters, which leaves onlt database right and the last two chapters to bring up to date. And here for starters is a document I call an IP Roadmap, which gives you the very, very basics of IP law on one side of A4.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1a International aspects
Chapter 2 Confidential Information
Chapter 3 Patents – Introduction And Subject Matter
Chapter 4 Patents – Obtaining Protection
Chapter 5 Patents – The Owner’s Rights
Chapter 6 Patents – Ownership And Transfer
Chapter 7 Patents – International Aspects
Chapter 8 Designs
Chapter 9 Registered Designs – Introduction And Subject Matter
Chapter 10 Registered Designs: The Content Of The Right
Chapter 11 United Kingdom Unregistered Design Right: Introduction and subject matter
Chapter 12 United Kingdom Unregistered Design Right: infringement and ownership
Chapter 13 The Community Design System
Chapter 14 Copyright - Introduction
Chapter 15 Copyright – Subject Matter
Chapter 16 Who Owns Copyright, and for how long?
Chapter 17 The Copyright Owner’s Rights
Chapter 18 Copyright: Moral Rights
Chapter 19 Dealings With Copyright Works
Chapter 20 Database Right
Chapter 21 Trade Marks - Introduction
Chapter 22 Subject Matter Of Registered Trade Marks
Chapter 23 Trade Marks – Conditions For Registration
Chapter 24 Trade Marks – Exclusive Rights
Chapter 25 Matters Arising During the Life of a Trade Mark
Chapter 26 Community Trade Marks
Chapter 27 International Trade Marks
Chapter 28 Dealings With Trade Marks
Chapter 29 Passing-off And Malicious Falsehood
Chapter 30 Domain names and company names
Chapter 31 Privacy