A User's Guide to Patents

4th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78043-489-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 850 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: A User's Guide to... Series

A User's Guide to Patents, fourth edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. It sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced as well as addressing wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners.

The fourth edition is brought fully up to date to include the introduction of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) and how it will work in practice.

Fully updated to include the latest developments, this fourth edition will be of great use to in-house lawyers, solicitors and barristers, as well as professionals interested in patents, including patent agents, and top level management executives.

Contents includes:

Part 1 Patents generally:

1. Introduction to the patent system
2. Applying for and securing the grant of a patent
3. Transactions with patents and with patent applications
4. Procedures in disputes concerning patents
5. Patent validity - substantive law
6. Patent infringement - substantive law
Part II Patents in specific areas of technology
7. Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals
8. Biotechnology patents
9. Patents in electronics, communications, computing and for business methods
Part III Appendices

Previous edition ISBN: 9781847668905

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Währungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Patents generally
Chapter 1 Introduction to the patent system
Chapter 2 Applying for and securing the grant of a patent
Chapter 3 Transactions with patents and with patent applications
Chapter 4 Procedures in disputes concerning patents
Chapter 5 Patent validity - substantive law
Chapter 6 Patent infringement - substantive law
Part II Patents in specific areas of technology
Chapter 7 Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals
Chapter 8 Biotechnology patents
Chapter 9 Patents in electronics, communications, and computing
Part III Appendices
Appendix 1 Adherence to International Patent Treaties
Appendix 2 Patents Court and Court of Appeal workload
Appendix 3 Patents Court and Court of Appeal judgments on validity and infringement since 1997
Appendix 4 Further reading
Appendix 5 Patent resources on the Internet
Appendix 6 Legislative materials

Über Autor(innen)

Cook, Trevor
Trevor Cook is an English qualified solicitor with over 35 years' experience in the field of intellectual property, and notably global patent litigation, who has acted in many of the leading patent infringement cases before the English courts. At the beginning of 2014 Mr Cook joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP as a partner in New York from Bird & Bird LLP in London, where he had been a partner since 1981. He is chair of the British Copyright Council and was for several years president of the UK group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property. He is on the World Intellectual Property Organisation list of arbitrators.

Trevor Cook is a practising solicitor, specialising in Intellectual Property. He is President of the UK Group of the AIPPI (The International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property) and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute.