Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases - Brossura

Reynolds, Rocque; Stoianoff, Natalie; Adrian, Angela; Roy, Alpana

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ISBN 10: 1862878706 ISBN 13: 9781862878709

Casa editrice: Federation Press, 2012

Riassunto

Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of the cases and legislation which comprise modern intellectual property law.

This edition adds resale royalty rights for visual artists to its coverage of the major IP topics: copyright, moral rights, performers' protection, patents, trademarks, designs, plant breeder's rights, circuit layouts and confidential information. It also analyses the new Competition and Consumer Act 2011 (Cth) as it relates to passing off and related actions. The impact of challenging cases such as IceTV is considered in detail and extracts of impoertant new cases have been added to the book.

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L'autore:

Rocque Reynolds 
 
Dr Rocque Reynolds is Professor and Dean of School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, Lismore.  She has written, taught and advised on all aspects of intellectual property (IP) and administrative law including contracting and managing IP for Government procurement and Defence.

Rocque has conducted significant research into current trends in managing IP in business, with a particular emphasis on agribusiness. Her work includes a report on managing IP in the pasture seeds industry, the introduction of end point royalties in the grain industry and the international framework for the protection of plant genetic resources and food security.

Dr Reynolds has also had long experience in both private and government practice, with a particular focus in the entertainment, film and media industries. She maintains a continuing interest in the intersections between cultural production and the law

Natalie Stoianoff 
 
Natalie Stoianoff is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she is the Director, Master of Intellectual Property Program, and Chair of the Intellectual Property, Media and Communications Research Network. Her interdisciplinary research is concerned with the legal, ethical and commercial aspects of biotechnology, biodiversity and traditional knowledge. In particular, Natalie's research interests range from the patenting and exploitation of new technologies to climate change and environmental taxation.

As a joint recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, Natalie has been investigating intellectual Property enforcement and awareness building in the People's Republic of China and has published numerous articles and papers on this topic. Natalie, in addition to being co-author Intellectual Property Law: Text and Essential Cases is author of numerous Patent Law Bulletins, Lahore's Patents, Trade Marks & Related Rights Reporter, and is editor of Accessing Biological Resources, Complying with the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Natalie is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia, a member of ATRIP, the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, was a Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, and has been a member of the New South Wales Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, and the Patents and Licensing Working Party of the Australian Biotechnology Association. In addition, Natalie has contributed to economic policy development in Australia as a member of the Taxation Policy Committee and the Economic Affairs Standing Committee of the New South Wales State Chamber of Commerce and as Vice President of the New South Wales Board of the Australia China Business Council, chairing the Education Sub-Committee.

 

Angela Adrian 
 
Dr Adrian started her career in business with a Masters degree in business from Schiller International University, London. Later she received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University, New Orleans, and practised law in Louisiana. Next, she gained an LLM with distinction in Commercial Law from the University of Aberdeen while concurrently qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales.

Dr Adrian published her PhD as a monograph entitled Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, their Ownership and Rights. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at Southern Cross University and Editor of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

 
Alpana Roy 
 
Dr Alpana Roy is a legal academic, practitioner, consultant, and mediator. She has extensive experience in Australian and international law, having worked in Sydney for two top-tier corporate law firms, boutique specialist firms, and the Crown Solicitor’s Office.

Alpana has practised both as a solicitor and a barrister for a number of years, and has also worked as a lawyer internationally. She specialises in all aspects of Australian and international intellectual property law, with a particular focus in trade marks. Alpana has wide-ranging experience in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, and has been involved in a number of leading cases in the Federal Court of Australia.

Apart from her experience as a legal practitioner, Alpana also has several years of experience in academia, where she has lectured in a wide range of postgraduate and undergraduate intellectual property subjects. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has previously lectured at the University of Sydney, where she obtained both her law degree and her PhD in intellectual property law.

She is widely published in intellectual property, and is a commissioned author for several major legal publishers, including The Federation Press, Thomson/Lawbook, LexisNexis Butterworths, CCH, and the Oxford University Press. She is also regularly invited to speak at international and national seminars on a broad range of intellectual property law topics.

Contenuti:

Part 1 Introduction, Opening Your Eyes to IP, Part II Copyright and Neighbouring Rights,
Copyright - Its Birth and Nature, Subsistence of Copyright, Exclusive Rights of the Copyright Owner, Actions and Offences, Balancing the Interests, Dealing with Copyright
Neighbouring Rights and Indigenous Cultural Property, Part III Patents, The Patent System,
Elements of Patentability, Patents - Rights, Infringement and Dealing, Biotechnology Patents, Part IV Passing Off, Trade Marks and Related Actions, Passing Off and Related Actions, Trade Marks, Trade Marks - Rights, Infringement and Dealings, Part V Designs, Plant Breeder's Rights, Circuit Layouts and Confidential Information, Designs, Plant Breeder's Rights, Circuit Layouts, Confidential Information.

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• Editore: Federation Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1862878706
• ISBN 13: 9781862878709
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 736