| Industrial and intellectual
property |
| Section A: Intellectual
property and technology |
| ·
Patents |
|
·
History and introduction; British, European and international
patent systems (as affecting the UK); criteria for patentability;
ownership; infringement |
| ·
Breach of confidence |
|
·
History and introduction; personal, trade and state secrets; the
public interest and other defences |
| Section B: Intellectual
property and creativity |
| ·
Copyright and related rights |
|
·
History and introduction; the framework of copyright law - UK,
Europe and international; subsistence of copyright; ownership;
infringement; defences; term; moral rights; related rights -
database right, artists’ resale right, performers’ rights |
| Section C: Intellectual
property and distinctive trading signs |
| ·
The law of registered trademarks |
|
·
History and introduction; the framework of trademark law - UK,
Europe and international (as affecting the UK); criteria for
registration; grounds for refusal; infringement; defences;
revocation and invalidity |
| ·
Passing off |
|
·
Reputation or goodwill; misrepresentation; damage; standing to
sue, including trade associations and foreign claimants; defences |
| Section D: Intellectual
property - integrated topics |
| ·
Justifications for intellectual property |
| ·
Sanctions for misuse of intellectual property, including civil
remedies and criminal sanctions |
| ·
Law of industrial designs - registered and unregistered systems;
overlap with other rights |
| ·
Dealing with intellectual property rights |
| ·
Intellectual property and Europe - monopoly and a common market |
Sequence:
Section D last. |
|
Textbooks:
Jeremy Phillips and
Alison Firth, An Introduction to Intellectual Property Law
4th ed (London:
Butterworths, 2001), ISBN: 9780406997579
Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman, Intellectual Property Law
2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004),
ISBN:
0199264309
Andrew Christie and Stephen Gare (eds), Blackstone’s
Statutes on Intellectual Property 8th ed (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006), ISBN: 0199288267 |
