• Focusing on domestic intellectual property law, while placing it firmly in its international context allows students to gain a broad and thorough understanding of IP as a global subject
• Combines well-chosen excerpts from case law and secondary materials with stimulating commentary
• Carefully written and developed to map closely onto intellectual property law courses
• Provides a selection of relevant further reading
• Supported by a specially designed Online Resource Centre which provides updates of recent developments in the law and links to relevant websites

This book provides a complete resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of intellectual property law. It is designed to be the first of its kind, in combining extracts from major cases and secondary materials with critical commentary from experienced teachers in the field.

The book deals with all areas of intellectual property law in the UK: copyright, trade marks and passing off, confidential information, industrial designs, patent, industrial designs, procedure and enforcement. It also tackles topical areas, such as the application of IP law to new technologies and character merchandising. While the focus of the book is on IP law in a domestic context, it provides international, EU and comparative law perspectives on major issues. It also addresses the wider policy implications of legislative and judicial developments in the area.

It is an ideal resource for all students of intellectual property law who need cases, materials and commentary in a single volume.

Readership: Undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in intellectual property law.

: An Introduction to Intellectual Property
2: Copyright I: Subsistence, ownership and exploitation
3: Copyright II: Infringement and exceptions
4: Passing off
5: Trade Marks I: Justifications, registration, and absolute grounds for refusal of registration
6: Trade Marks II: The relative grounds for refusal of registration, infringement, defences, and exhaustion of rights
7: Character merchandising and publicity rights
8: Breach of confidence
9: Patents I: Validity
10: Patents II: Infringement, exceptions, entitlement
11: Industrial design
12: Intellectual property and information technologies
13: Intellectual property in action