This title covers the practical issues of how business can protect and exploit intellectual property rights, including how to avoid infringement problems and what happens during court procedings.
Contents:
Basic concepts; patents and how to obtain them; trade marks and new Trade Marks Act 1994; registered designs; copyright and design right; confidential information or know-how; infringement of intellectual property rights; legal and other remedies for infringement; avoiding infringement problems through clearance; buying and selling intellectual property rights; licensing and franchising, the valuation of taxation of intellectual property rights; costs; maintaining intellectual property rights in force; European aspects.
