1: An introduction to intellectual property 2: Copyright I: history, justifications, sources of law, and subsistence 3: Copyright II: authorship, ownership, exploitation, term, moral rights, and economic rights 4: Copyright III: infringement, exceptions, and database right 5: Passing off 6: Trade marks I: justifications, registration, and absolute grounds for refusal of registration 7: Trade marks II: the relative grounds for refusal of registration, infringement, and remedies 8: Trade marks III: defences, the loss of a trade mark, and exhaustion of rights 9: Breach of confidence 10: Privacy, personality, and publicity 11: Patents I: justifications, registration, patentable subject matter, and industrial application 12: Patents II: novelty, inventive step, sufficiency, and support 13: Patents III: infringement, exceptions, and entitlement 14: Industrial designs

Focuses on domestic intellectual property law, while placing it firmly in its international context to allow students to gain a broad and thorough understanding of intellectual property as a global subject Combines well-chosen extracts from case law and secondary materials with stimulating commentary to give students a wide variety of practical and academic perspectives Provides an extensive selection of relevant further reading throughout each chapter, which allows students to use the textbook as a springboard for further research

Focuses on domestic intellectual property law, while placing it firmly in its international context to allow students to gain a broad and thorough understanding of intellectual property as a global subject Combines well-chosen extracts from case law and secondary materials with stimulating commentary to give students a wide variety of practical and academic perspectives Provides an extensive selection of relevant further reading throughout each chapter, which allows students to use the textbook as a springboard for further research