Intellectual Property Law: 3rd Edition - Softcover

Bently, Lionel; Sherman, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199292043 ISBN 13: 9780199292042

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

Bently and Sherman's Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on intellectual property law.

The book's all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off and confidentiality, it also takes account of a wide range of academic opinion enabling readers to explore and make informed judgments about the key principles. The authors' particularly clear and lively writing style ensures that even the most complex areas are lucid and comprehensible, and the text is further enlivened with illustrations and diagrams.

This edition:
- includes further illustrations and diagrams to help aid reader understanding and illustrate key concepts
- includes a sample patent application to help students understand this particularly complex topic
- takes account of the latest changes in the field, including the implementation of performers' moral rights, the implementation of the EC enforcement directive, and the EC directive on artists' resale royalty
- examines developments in case law at the ECJ, particularly in relation to trade marks and databases
- accomodates developments in TRIPS interpretation

In short, any serious scholar of intellectual property law, along with practitioners working in the area, will find that this book is an invaluable mine of information on all topics relating to IP law.

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Review

There is no doubt that this edition, as previous editions of the book, presents helpful reading and is a perfect textbook for students, scholars and practitioners working on and interested in the subject of intellectual property in general. (E.I.P.R.)

This book indeed is an essential textbook for any intellectual property student's library. (E.I.P.R.)

Written by two leading academic intellectual property lawyers, Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman, Intellectual Property Law is a vast and comprehensive consideration of the key intellectual property issues including, where appropriate, their contextual background. (Student Law Journal)

Its written style is also impressive: lucidly explaining the detailed legal and, often, social issues that intellectual property law, in particular, encounters. Fortunately, the authors' written style ensures these issues are not lost within the detail. (Student Law Journal)

is an indispensable text for anyone studying this complex but intriguing area of law. It is extremely well-written in an engaging and thought provoking way. The authors also ensure, by including number references, that it can also form the basis of further and independent research. (Student Law Journal)

About the Author

Lionel Bently is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199292043
• ISBN 13: 9780199292042
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1264