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Brief Contents Preface xii Publisher's acknowledgements xiii Table of cases xiv Table of legislation xl Glossary lvi List of bibliographic abbreviations lxi Case and other references and access lxii Part One PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1 What are intellectual property rights? 3 2 Justification for intellectual property rights 20 3 Sources of intellectual property law 30 4 Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats 44 Part Two COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS 5 Subsistence and duration of copyright 67 6 Authorship and ownership of copyright 117 7 Authors' rights 140 8 Owners' rights, infringement and remedies 170 9 Dealing with copyright 231 10 Defences and the permitted acts 244 11 Orphan works 292 12 Computer programs 308 13 Databases 339 14 Satellite broadcasting 361 15 Circumvention of effective technological measures 367 16 Electronic rights management information 376 17 Rights in performances 380 Part Three RIGHTS IN DESIGNS 18 Introduction to design law 405 19 Community design 416 20 The UK registered design 447 21 The UK unregistered design right 476 Part Four TRADE NAMES, SIGNS, MARKS, GOODWILL AND GET-UP 22 Introduction to trade marks and passing off 523 23 The UK trade mark - registrability and registration 537 24 The UK trade mark - grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity 559 25 The UK trade mark - property rights, surrender and revocation 604 26 The UK trade mark - rights, infringement and remedies 616 27 The UK trade mark - limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences 641 28 The new EU trade mark Directive 671 29 The European Union trade mark 683 30 Passing off 708 31 Malicious falsehood 747 Part Five TRADE SECRETS AND INVENTIONS 32 Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions 759 33 Trade secrets and the law of confidence 776 34 Requirements for the grant of a patent 819 35 Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such) 863 36 Other exclusions from the grant of a patent 885 37 Biotechnological patents 890 38 Entitlement to and dealing with patents 898 39 Patent infringement and remedies 926 40 Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender 967 41 The European patent, unitary patent and the Unified Patents Court 990 Appendix - Useful website addresses 1001 Bibliography and further reading 1004 Index 1006

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