Product Description: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: THE LAW OF TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS, AND TRADE SECRETS, Fourth Edition, is a thorough guide to the four fields of intellectual property law: trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. This comprehensive, yet reader-friendly text helps you master the complexities of modern intellectual property law, including topics such as registration procedures, duration of rights, protection from infringement, current concerns in each field, and international trends and developments...read more

Product Description: Intellectual property is a vital part of the global economy, accounting for about half of the GDP in countries like the United States. Innovation, competition, economic growth, and jobs can all be helped or hurt by different approaches to this key asset class, where seemingly slight changes in the rules of the game can have remarkable impact...read more

Product Description: Are innovation and creativity helped or hindered by our intellectual property laws? In the two hundred plus years since the Constitution enshrined protections for those who create and innovate, we're still debating the merits of IP laws and whether or not they actually work as intended...read more

Product Description: The most comprehensive one volume guidance manual available today for legal counsel assisting employers with unfair competition and intellectual property protection issues. This treatise replaces Drafting and Enforcing Covenants Not to Compete, bringing the same trusted authors together to create an expanded new title...read more

Product Description: Intellectual Property (IP) is one of the most vital assets for any business organization. It is a domain not restricted to lawyers alone; it is a crucial area of concern for business organizations, managers, and corporate leaders...read more

Product Description: Today, it has been said, the world is "flat," as online media allow information to move easily from point to point across the earth. International legal differences, however, are increasingly affecting the ease with which data and ideas can be shared across nations...read more

The guide provides analysis and explanation of participants in Section 337 investigations and discusses the unique role played by the ITC. It also focuses on the procedural rules of a Section 337 investigation, including complaint preparation, the discovery process, pre-hearing procedures, the hearing and post-hearing processes and remedies available to a successful complainant. Other topics addressed include enforcement of a violation ruling, parallel litigation and appellate court review of an ITC decision.

Product Description: This introductory text explores the origins, sources, function, and values of the exciting world of Intellectual Property (IP). Topics covered include copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, domain names, and geographical indication, with primary attention given to IP law in the United States and ample coverage of key international laws...read more

Product Description: This topical volume brings together seminal papers which explore the interplay of intellectual property, innovation and environmental protection. It traces the emergence of intellectual property as an environmental protection policy lever and examines the interaction of market failures at the intersection of technological progress and environmental protection...read more

Product Description: In this detailed yet readable legal analysis, the authors thoroughly evaluate the connections between intellectual property and the sports and entertainment industries, covering everything from copyrights and patents to trademarked logos and marketing strategies...read more

Product Description: Three major contributions [of Patents Misuse and Antitrust Law] stand out. First, it illustrates as well as any other work how to bridge the study of antitrust law and patent law... A second and related feature is Professor Lim's excellent use of historical narratives to show how patent misuse concepts have developed over time...read more

<p> <b>The Law of Intellectual Property, Second Edition</b>, presents core concepts through cutting-edge applications, engaging problems, and dynamic perspectives. Cutting-edge, high-interest issues — such as the development of human genomics, copyright questions raised by digital music, and the applicability of trademark law to domain names — enliven class discussion and connect students in a meaningful way to a rich selection of case law, theory, and statutes. </p> <p> <b>The Law of Intellectual Property, Second Edition, features</b>: </p> <ul> <li> <b>distinguished authorship by three luminaries</b> in Intellectual Property </li> <li> <b>comprehensive and current coverage</b> </li> <li> <b>cutting-edge cases and statutory materials</b> chosen for currency, interest, and the clarity with which they illustrate the principles under discussion </li> <li> <b>straightforward Notes</b> that highlight salient themes, provide context, make connections between and among related case decisions and statutes </li> <li> <b>pedagogical innovations</b>, such as <b>Comparative Perspectives</b> and <b> Policy Perspectives</b>, which introduce special rules relating to technology, offer comparative analysis, and discuss viewpoints on topics and issues </li> <li> <b>scenario problems in each chapter</b>, drawn from actual cases, test students’ general comprehension of principles and statutory materials — these highly engaging cases introduce products, expressions, and inventions that will intrigue and motivate students </li> <li> <b>comprehensive Teacher’s Manual</b> with sample syllabi, teaching notes, discussion pointers, additional problems, lists of supplemental materials, and suggestions for exams and assignments </li> </ul> <p> <b>Updated throughout, the Second Edition includes</b>: </p> <ul> <li> new cases such as <i>Dastar Corp., Nash, Funky Films</i>, and <i>Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.Com, Inc</i>. </li> <li> <b>Written Description and Definiteness</b>, and a section on Statutory Subject Matter </li> <li> discussion of the <b>eBay copyright cases</b> </li> <li> a new section on <b>Reasonable Steps to Preserve Secrecy</b> in the Trade Secret chapter </li> </ul> <p> <b>The Law of Intellectual Property, Second Edition</b>, puts current and engaging cases and materials into an accessible framework to support teaching, enliven discussion, and motivate students. </p>

Product Description: This comprehensive and practical book focuses on the core concepts of Intellectual Property. The book's innovative pedagogy engages students with problems drawn from actual cases and provides them with introductions to cases and contextual summaries in the notes...read more

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive guide to procuring, utilizing and monetizing intellectual property rights, tailored for readers in the high-tech consumer electronics and software industries, as well as technology startups.  Numerous, real examples, case studies and scenarios are incorporated throughout the book to illustrate the topics discussed...read more

Product Description: This volume explores the sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. The United States and France are liberal democracies that are part of the Western family of nations...read more

Product Description: Clean Tech Intellectual Property authored by Eric L. Lane: Eco-marks, Green Patents, and Green Innovation, by Eric L. Lane, is the first comprehensive review of intellectual property and clean technology. It analyzes the interplay of clean technologies and IP regimes using industry trends, legal developments and case studies to demonstrate how IP law is influencing the growth of clean tech and how green business models are shaping IP practice...read more

Product Description: Intellectual Property Culture and Compliances by Eric M. Dobrusin & Ronald A. Krasnow: With the increasing public awareness of patents, U.S. Congress having enacted patent reform, and the U.S. Supreme Court taking on expanding numbers of patent cases, the pressure on innovation-based organizations to define and improve their intellectual property culture is higher than ever before...read more

Product Description: Electronic commerce has grown from a high-tech niche to a billion dollar industry and continues to grow. Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis book and CD is the most complete, up-to-date legal guide to business transactions in this environment...read more