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Abstract
Intellectual Property offers unrivalled 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 tenth edition has been substantially updated and streamlined to ensure the book best fits the contemporary intellectual property syllabus. Key updates to the new edition include:
· Significant restructuring to reduce the length of each chapter without compromising on coverage of each topic.
· A revised chapter structure which maps closely to the structure of a typical intellectual property module.
· Discussion on the creation of a European patent with unitary effect and a Unified Patents Court.
· Coverage of the new codifying trade mark regulation and the trade mark directive requiring implementation in 2019.
· An outline of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017.
· Consideration of the potential wide-ranging effects of Brexit in relation to intellectual property rights and protections.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Inside Front Cover | IFC | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Brief Contents | v | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Preface | xii | ||
| Publisher’s acknowledgements | xiii | ||
| Table of cases | xiv | ||
| Table of legislation | xl | ||
| Glossary | lvi | ||
| List of bibliographic abbreviations | lxi | ||
| Case and other references and access | lxii | ||
| Part One PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS | 1 | ||
| 1 What are intellectual property rights? | 3 | ||
| Taxonomy of intellectual property rights | 4 | ||
| Copyright and related rights | 5 | ||
| Rights in designs | 7 | ||
| Trade marks, names, signs and ‘get-up’ | 8 | ||
| Trade secrets and inventions | 10 | ||
| EU competition law and conflict of laws | 12 | ||
| Nature of intellectual property | 14 | ||
| Combination of intellectual property rights | 15 | ||
| The nature of the study of intellectual property | 16 | ||
| Brexit and intellectual property | 16 | ||
| Summary | 17 | ||
| Discussion questions | 19 | ||
| Selected further reading | 19 | ||
| 2 Justification for intellectual property rights | 20 | ||
| Moral right/natural law right | 20 | ||
| Incentive/reward theory | 21 | ||
| Contract/consideration theory | 24 | ||
| Prevention of deceitful/fraudulent practices | 25 | ||
| Abolish intellectual property laws? | 25 | ||
| Other issues | 27 | ||
| Summary | 28 | ||
| Discussion questions | 28 | ||
| Selected further reading | 28 | ||
| 3 Sources of intellectual property law | 30 | ||
| International conventions and treaties | 31 | ||
| EU laws | 37 | ||
| UK intellectual property laws | 39 | ||
| Private international law | 40 | ||
| Summary | 42 | ||
| Discussion questions | 43 | ||
| Selected further reading | 43 | ||
| 4 Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats | 44 | ||
| Introduction | 44 | ||
| The Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights | 44 | ||
| Preliminary measures | 53 | ||
| Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 | 58 | ||
| Summary | 62 | ||
| Discussion questions | 62 | ||
| Selected further reading | 63 | ||
| Part Two COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS | 65 | ||
| 5 Subsistence and duration of copyright | 67 | ||
| Introduction | 67 | ||
| Original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works | 69 | ||
| Sound recordings, films or broadcasts | 97 | ||
| Typographical arrangements of published editions | 99 | ||
| Qualification | 101 | ||
| Duration of copyright | 104 | ||
| Publication right | 112 | ||
| Summary | 115 | ||
| Discussion questions | 116 | ||
| Selected further reading | 116 | ||
| 6 Authorship and ownership of copyright | 117 | ||
| Introduction | 117 | ||
| Authorship | 119 | ||
| Ownership of copyright | 126 | ||
| Summary | 138 | ||
| Discussion questions | 139 | ||
| Selected further reading | 139 | ||
| 7 Authors’ rights | 140 | ||
| Introduction | 140 | ||
| Moral rights | 140 | ||
| Artists’ resale right | 163 | ||
| Summary | 168 | ||
| Discussion questions | 169 | ||
| Selected further reading | 169 | ||
| 8 Owners’ rights, infringement and remedies | 170 | ||
| Introduction | 170 | ||
| Rights of copyright owners | 170 | ||
| The acts restricted by copyright | 171 | ||
| Authorising infringement of copyright | 200 | ||
| Secondary infringement of copyright | 204 | ||
| Publication right | 207 | ||
| Remedies for infringement of copyright | 207 | ||
| Civil remedies | 208 | ||
| Presumptions | 219 | ||
| Criminal offences | 221 | ||
| Summary | 228 | ||
| Discussion questions | 229 | ||
| Selected further reading | 230 | ||
| 9 Dealing with copyright | 231 | ||
| Introduction | 231 | ||
| Collecting societies | 237 | ||
| Licensing schemes | 238 | ||
| Compulsory licences and licences as of right | 241 | ||
| Copyright Tribunal | 242 | ||
| Summary | 242 | ||
| Discussion questions | 243 | ||
| Selected further reading | 243 | ||
| 10 Defences and the permitted acts | 244 | ||
| Introduction | 244 | ||
| Copyright owner authorised or consented to the act | 246 | ||
| Acquiescence, delay and estoppel | 247 | ||
| Public interest | 250 | ||
| Non-derogation from grant | 253 | ||
| The permitted acts | 254 | ||
| General | 255 | ||
| Disability | 271 | ||
| Education | 274 | ||
| Libraries and archives | 277 | ||
| Public administration | 283 | ||
| Computer programs and databases | 284 | ||
| Designs, typefaces and works in electronic form | 284 | ||
| Miscellaneous – literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works | 286 | ||
| Miscellaneous – other works | 286 | ||
| Adaptations | 288 | ||
| Statutory licence to use sound recordings in broadcasts | 288 | ||
| Summary | 289 | ||
| Discussion questions | 290 | ||
| Selected further reading | 290 | ||
| 11 Orphan works | 292 | ||
| Introduction | 292 | ||
| Twin-track approach to orphan works | 292 | ||
| The orphan works Directive | 293 | ||
| Licensing orphan works | 299 | ||
| Summary | 306 | ||
| Discussion questions | 307 | ||
| Selected further reading | 307 | ||
| 12 Computer programs | 308 | ||
| What are computer programs? | 308 | ||
| The copyright protection of computer programs prior to the 1988 Act | 310 | ||
| Subsistence of copyright protection for computer programs | 311 | ||
| Authorship and ownership of computer programs | 314 | ||
| Restricted acts | 315 | ||
| Exceptions to the restricted acts | 326 | ||
| Special measures | 335 | ||
| Summary | 337 | ||
| Discussion questions | 337 | ||
| Selected further reading | 338 | ||
| 13 Databases | 339 | ||
| Introduction | 339 | ||
| Meaning of database for copyright and for the sui generis right | 340 | ||
| Copyright protection of databases prior to the Directive | 342 | ||
| Copyright protection of databases | 343 | ||
| The sui generis right (database right) | 347 | ||
| Summary | 359 | ||
| Discussion questions | 359 | ||
| Selected further reading | 360 | ||
| 14 Satellite broadcasting | 361 | ||
| Introduction | 361 | ||
| Summary | 366 | ||
| Discussion questions | 366 | ||
| Selected further reading | 366 | ||
| 15 Circumvention of effective technological measures | 367 | ||
| Introduction | 367 | ||
| The Directive on copyright and related rights in the information society | 368 | ||
| The UK implementation | 370 | ||
| Summary | 374 | ||
| Discussion questions | 375 | ||
| Selected further reading | 375 | ||
| 16 Electronic rights management information | 376 | ||
| Introduction | 376 | ||
| Electronic rights management information under the Directive | 377 | ||
| The UK implementation | 377 | ||
| Summary | 379 | ||
| Discussion question | 379 | ||
| Selected further reading | 379 | ||
| 17 Rights in performances | 380 | ||
| Introduction | 380 | ||
| Rights granted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as enacted | 381 | ||
| Rights in performances – present position | 382 | ||
| Common ground | 384 | ||
| Performers’ non-property rights | 387 | ||
| Performers’ property rights | 388 | ||
| Performers’ moral rights | 392 | ||
| Recording rights | 395 | ||
| Transitional provisions and savings | 398 | ||
| Offences | 398 | ||
| Overview | 399 | ||
| Summary | 400 | ||
| Discussion questions | 401 | ||
| Selected further reading | 401 | ||
| Part Three RIGHTS IN DESIGNS | 403 | ||
| 18 Introduction to design law | 405 | ||
| Origins of design law and its development in the UK | 406 | ||
| Present forms of legal protection for designs | 406 | ||
| Overlap of design law with other intellectual property rights | 408 | ||
| Brexit and design protection | 413 | ||
| Layout of the chapters on design law | 414 | ||
| Summary | 414 | ||
| Discussion questions | 414 | ||
| Selected further reading | 415 | ||
| 19 Community design | 416 | ||
| Introduction | 416 | ||
| Requirements for protection (RCD and UCD) | 417 | ||
| Duration of Community design | 421 | ||
| Exclusions from the Community design | 422 | ||
| Entitlement to a Community design | 423 | ||
| Nature of a Community design | 425 | ||
| Dealing with a Community design | 426 | ||
| Rights and infringement | 427 | ||
| Limitations and defences | 430 | ||
| Remedies | 433 | ||
| Offences | 435 | ||
| Registration of Community design | 436 | ||
| Invalidity | 439 | ||
| Surrender | 442 | ||
| Appeals from decisions at the EUIPO | 442 | ||
| Jurisdiction | 443 | ||
| Summary | 445 | ||
| Discussion questions | 446 | ||
| Selected further reading | 446 | ||
| 20 The UK registered design | 447 | ||
| Introduction | 447 | ||
| Background to and development of the UK registered design legislation | 448 | ||
| Implementation of the Directive | 449 | ||
| Requirements for registrability | 452 | ||
| Registration | 461 | ||
| Cancellation and invalidity | 462 | ||
| Duration | 464 | ||
| Proprietorship of UK registered design | 465 | ||
| Dealing with a registered design or application for a registered design | 465 | ||
| Rights of proprietor | 467 | ||
| Infringement | 467 | ||
| Exceptions to infringement | 468 | ||
| Defences | 469 | ||
| Remedies | 470 | ||
| Groundless threats of infringement proceedings | 470 | ||
| Offences | 471 | ||
| Crown use and secrecy provisions | 473 | ||
| Recent innovations in registered design law | 474 | ||
| Summary | 474 | ||
| Discussion questions | 475 | ||
| Selected further reading | 475 | ||
| 21 The UK unregistered design right | 476 | ||
| Background | 477 | ||
| What is a design? | 478 | ||
| Exclusions from design right | 482 | ||
| The designer | 488 | ||
| Subsistence of design right | 489 | ||
| Duration of design right | 498 | ||
| Ownership | 499 | ||
| Assignment and licensing | 502 | ||
| Rights of owner and infringement | 504 | ||
| Exceptions to infringement | 508 | ||
| Defences to infringement actions | 509 | ||
| Remedies | 510 | ||
| Semiconductor topography design right | 513 | ||
| Summary | 518 | ||
| Discussion questions | 519 | ||
| Selected further reading | 519 | ||
| Part Four TRADE NAMES, SIGNS, MARKS, GOODWILL AND GET-UP | 521 | ||
| 22 Introduction to trade marks and passing off | 523 | ||
| Introduction | 523 | ||
| Trade marks | 524 | ||
| The Act, the Directive and the Regulation | 528 | ||
| Hierarchy of courts and trade mark offices | 529 | ||
| Scheme and structure of the chapters on trade marks | 531 | ||
| Layout of the following chapters | 533 | ||
| Trade marks in the UK and Brexit | 533 | ||
| Passing off | 534 | ||
| Malicious falsehood | 535 | ||
| Summary | 535 | ||
| Discussion questions | 536 | ||
| Selected further reading | 536 | ||
| 23 The UK trade mark – registrability and registration | 537 | ||
| Introduction | 537 | ||
| The Trade Marks Act and the Directive | 537 | ||
| Registrable trade marks | 538 | ||
| Registration | 547 | ||
| Certification marks | 554 | ||
| Collective marks | 555 | ||
| The Madrid System for the international registration of trade marks | 556 | ||
| Summary | 557 | ||
| Discussion questions | 558 | ||
| Selected further reading | 558 | ||
| 24 The UK trade mark – grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity | 559 | ||
| Introduction | 559 | ||
| Unregistrable signs and invalid trade marks | 559 | ||
| Absolute grounds for refusal or invalidity | 561 | ||
| Relative grounds for refusal or invalidity | 583 | ||
| Invalidity | 600 | ||
| Summary | 602 | ||
| Discussion questions | 603 | ||
| Selected further reading | 603 | ||
| 25 The UK trade mark – property rights, surrender and revocation | 604 | ||
| Trade marks as property | 604 | ||
| Surrender of registered trade mark | 607 | ||
| Revocation | 607 | ||
| Summary | 615 | ||
| Discussion questions | 615 | ||
| Selected further reading | 615 | ||
| 26 The UK trade mark – rights, infringement and remedies | 616 | ||
| Introduction | 616 | ||
| Rights conferred by registration and infringement | 617 | ||
| Comparative advertising | 631 | ||
| Applying mark to material, etc. | 634 | ||
| Well-known marks – Paris Convention countries | 634 | ||
| Evidential aspects | 635 | ||
| Remedies | 637 | ||
| Summary | 639 | ||
| Discussion questions | 640 | ||
| Selected further reading | 640 | ||
| 27 The UK trade mark – limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences | 641 | ||
| Introduction | 641 | ||
| Limitation on the effects of a trade mark | 641 | ||
| Acquiesence | 648 | ||
| Exhaustion of rights | 649 | ||
| Groundless threats of infringement proceedings | 652 | ||
| Remedies | 655 | ||
| Criminal offences | 659 | ||
| Summary | 669 | ||
| Discussion questions | 669 | ||
| Selected further reading | 670 | ||
| 28 The new EU trade mark Directive | 671 | ||
| Introduction | 671 | ||
| Chapter 2 Substantive law on trade marks | 672 | ||
| Chapter 3 Procedures | 679 | ||
| Chapter 4 Administrative cooperation and Chapter 5 Final provisions | 681 | ||
| Summary | 681 | ||
| Discussion questions | 682 | ||
| Selected further reading | 682 | ||
| 29 The European Union trade mark | 683 | ||
| Introduction | 683 | ||
| EU trade mark | 684 | ||
| Nature of the EU trade mark | 685 | ||
| Requirements for registration of an EU trade mark | 686 | ||
| Rights conferred by an EU trade mark | 696 | ||
| Property rights in an EU trade mark | 700 | ||
| Surrender, revocation and invalidity | 702 | ||
| Decisions at the EUIPO and appeals | 703 | ||
| Jurisdiction | 704 | ||
| The UK Community Trade Mark Regulations | 706 | ||
| Summary | 706 | ||
| Discussion questions | 707 | ||
| Selected further reading | 707 | ||
| 30 Passing off | 708 | ||
| Introduction | 708 | ||
| Classification of passing off | 709 | ||
| Basic requirements for passing off | 710 | ||
| Goodwill | 711 | ||
| Misrepresentation | 722 | ||
| Damage to goodwill | 737 | ||
| Defences | 742 | ||
| Remedies | 743 | ||
| Summary | 745 | ||
| Discussion questions | 746 | ||
| Selected further reading | 746 | ||
| 31 Malicious falsehood | 747 | ||
| Nature of the tort | 747 | ||
| The false statement | 748 | ||
| Malicious statement | 748 | ||
| Comparative advertising | 750 | ||
| Malicious falsehood and parliamentary privilege | 751 | ||
| Defamation and malicious falsehood | 752 | ||
| Remedies | 753 | ||
| Summary | 754 | ||
| Discussion questions | 755 | ||
| Selected further reading | 755 | ||
| Part Five TRADE SECRETS AND INVENTIONS | 757 | ||
| 32 Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions | 759 | ||
| Introduction | 759 | ||
| Trade secrets and the law of confidence | 761 | ||
| Patents for inventions | 762 | ||
| Practical considerations of patents | 763 | ||
| Summary | 774 | ||
| Discussion questions | 775 | ||
| Selected further reading | 775 | ||
| 33 Trade secrets and the law of confidence | 776 | ||
| Introduction | 776 | ||
| Trade secrets | 777 | ||
| Development of the law of confidence | 779 | ||
| Requirements for breach of confidence action | 780 | ||
| Quality of confidence | 781 | ||
| Obligation of confidence | 785 | ||
| Unauthorised use | 800 | ||
| Defences | 802 | ||
| Remedies | 806 | ||
| EU trade secrets Directive | 812 | ||
| Summary | 816 | ||
| Discussion questions | 817 | ||
| Selected further reading | 818 | ||
| 34 Requirements for the grant of a patent | 819 | ||
| Introduction | 819 | ||
| Relationship of the UK patent with patent conventions and the Patent Cooperation Treaty | 819 | ||
| Layout of this chapter | 821 | ||
| Sufficiency | 821 | ||
| Basic requirements | 826 | ||
| New invention | 828 | ||
| Inventive step | 841 | ||
| Industrial application | 857 | ||
| Summary | 861 | ||
| Discussion questions | 862 | ||
| Selected further reading | 862 | ||
| 35 Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such) | 863 | ||
| Introduction | 863 | ||
| ‘Non-inventions’ | 863 | ||
| A program for a computer | 867 | ||
| Summary | 883 | ||
| Discussion questions | 884 | ||
| Selected further reading | 884 | ||
| 36 Other exclusions from the grant of a patent | 885 | ||
| Introduction | 885 | ||
| Exploitation contrary to ordre public or morality | 886 | ||
| Plant or animal varieties | 886 | ||
| Surgery, therapy and diagnosis of the human or animal body | 887 | ||
| Summary | 889 | ||
| Discussion questions | 889 | ||
| Selected further reading | 889 | ||
| 37 Biotechnological patents | 890 | ||
| Introduction | 890 | ||
| Issues relating to biotechnological patents | 890 | ||
| The Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions | 891 | ||
| Derogations | 894 | ||
| Cross-licensing | 895 | ||
| Other provisions | 895 | ||
| Summary | 896 | ||
| Discussion questions | 897 | ||
| Selected further reading | 897 | ||
| 38 Entitlement to and dealing with patents | 898 | ||
| Introduction | 898 | ||
| Ownership of patents | 899 | ||
| Dealing with patents | 911 | ||
| ‘FRAND’ licences | 913 | ||
| Licences as of right | 916 | ||
| Compulsory licences | 917 | ||
| Safety and national security | 921 | ||
| Crown use | 922 | ||
| Summary | 924 | ||
| Discussion questions | 925 | ||
| Selected further reading | 925 | ||
| 39 Patent infringement and remedies | 926 | ||
| Introduction | 926 | ||
| Choice of court | 927 | ||
| Infringement | 929 | ||
| Interpretation of claims | 935 | ||
| Evidence | 950 | ||
| Remedies | 953 | ||
| Criminal offences | 964 | ||
| Summary | 965 | ||
| Discussion questions | 966 | ||
| Selected further reading | 966 | ||
| 40 Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender | 967 | ||
| Introduction | 967 | ||
| Defences | 967 | ||
| Groundless threats of infringement proceedings | 975 | ||
| Revocation, invalidity and surrender | 982 | ||
| Summary | 988 | ||
| Discussion questions | 989 | ||
| Selected further reading | 989 | ||
| 41 The European patent, unitary patent and the Unified Patents Court | 990 | ||
| Introduction | 990 | ||
| European patent | 990 | ||
| The unitary patent | 992 | ||
| Unified Patent Court | 995 | ||
| Brexit and the unitary patent | 998 | ||
| Summary | 999 | ||
| Discussion questions | 1000 | ||
| Selected further reading | 1000 | ||
| Appendix – Useful website addresses | 1001 | ||
| Bibliography and further reading | 1004 | ||
| Index | 1006 | ||
| A | 1006 | ||
| B | 1007 | ||
| C | 1007 | ||
| D | 1010 | ||
| E | 1012 | ||
| F | 1013 | ||
| G | 1014 | ||
| H | 1014 | ||
| I | 1015 | ||
| J | 1016 | ||
| K | 1016 | ||
| L | 1016 | ||
| M | 1017 | ||
| N | 1018 | ||
| O | 1018 | ||
| P | 1019 | ||
| Q | 1021 | ||
| R | 1021 | ||
| S | 1022 | ||
| T | 1024 | ||
| U | 1025 | ||
| V | 1026 | ||
| W | 1026 | ||
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