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, concise, and timely, Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property features:\ • complete coverage keyed to the leading IP casebooks for the survey course\ • proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy that fills in any...
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