Intellectual property /

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Author / Creator:McJohn, Stephen M., 1959-
Edition:4th ed.
Imprint:New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, c2012.
Description:xxiv, 571 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Examples & explanations series
Examples & explanations series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8753414
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Varying Form of Title:Intellectual property : examples and explanations
ISBN:9781454803324
1454803320
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.