Intellectual Property: Examples & Explanations, Third Edition » (3rd Edition)

Keeping up with the fast pace of change in Intellectual Property, the third edition of Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property offers timely coverage of central concepts in the proven-effective Examples & Explanations format. Student-friendly,

1. The Contours of Intellectual Property Law

Part I: Copyright

2. Subject Matter: Creative Expression, “No Matter How Humble, Crude, or Obvious”
3. Excluded Subject Matter: Ideas, Functional Aspects, Infringing Material, Government Works
4. Obtaining Protection and Licensing: Ownership, Formalities, Duration
5. Exclusive Rights: Their Enforcement and Limitations

Part II: Patent

6. Patentable Subject Matter: Products and Processes
7. Substantive Standards for Protection: New, Useful, and Nonobvious Inventions
8. Obtaining Protection, Ownership, and Licensing: Of Hoops and Pitfalls
9. Rights and Infringement: “The Benefit of His Invention”

Part III: Trademark

10. Subject Matter of Trademark Law
11. Substantive Standards for Protection: “The Source-Distinguishing Ability of a Mark”
12. Obtaining Protection and Licensing: Using, Registering, Licensing, and Losing a Trademark
13. Infringement and Related Rights Under Trademark Law

Part IV: Trade Secret

14. Trade Secret Subject Matter: Information with Economic Value from Not Being Generally Known
15. Getting Protection Through Reasonable Security Measures and Losing Protection Through Public Disclosure
16. Misappropriation and Remedies

Part V: Three State Law Theories And Preemption

17. Three More State Law Theories and Federal Preemption

Index