Intellectual property : examples & explanations /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Aspen Publishers,
2009.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The contours of intellectual property law
- Subject matter : creative expression, "no matter how humble, crude or obvious"
- Excluded subject matter : ideas, functional aspects, infringing material, government works
- Obtaining protection and licensing : ownership, formalities, duration
- Exclusive rights : their enforcement and limitations
- Patentable subject matter: products and processes
- Substantive standards for protection: new, useful, and nonobvious inventions
- Obtaining protection, ownership, and licensing : of hoops and pitfalls
- Rights and infringement : "the benefit of his invention"
- Subject matter of trademark law
- Substantive standards for protection : "the source-distinguishing ability of a mark"
- Obtaining protection and licensing : using, registering, licensing, and losing a trademark
- Infringement and related rights under trademark law
- Trade secret subject matter : information with economic value from not being generally known
- Getting protection through reasonable security measures and losing protection through public disclosure
- Misappropriation and remedies
- Three more state law theories and federal preemption.