Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide for Businesses, Innovative and Creative Individuals

by Jane Lambert

Overview

The development of a global 'knowledge economy' has encouraged organizations of all types to focus on the opportunities for, and the threats to, the intellectual property that they hold. The variety of intellectual assets (designs, databases, patents, brands and trade marks), the growth of new technology capable of exploiting and protecting these assets, and the nature of the law mean that intellectual property enforcement is a hugely complex area. Jane Lambert's Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights explains the threats and the remedies (criminal and civil, as well as alternatives to litigation), and provides a readable guide to the processes and the systems available. This is a must-have guide for all managers responsible for acquiring, managing and protecting intellectual assets and for students working in the area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409458449
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	09/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

For more than 11 years Jane Lambert, Founder and Head of Chambers at NIPC Law, has supplied high quality specialist intellectual property services to small businesses and individuals. A practising barrister specializing in IP and technology for many years, Jane established NIPC, the first specialist IP chambers outside London. Her book distils experience gained from working with local patent clinics, inventors' clubs and business advisors as well as with leading patent attorneys and lawyers from around the world.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; Chapter 2 Introduction to Intellectual Property; Chapter 3 How the Law Protects Different Intellectual Assets; Chapter 4 Dispute Resolution Options; Chapter 5 Woolf Rules, OK!; Chapter 6 So You Want to Sue Somebody; Chapter 7 What Happens if Neither Side Gives in; Chapter 8 How to Prepare Your Case; Chapter 9 What Happens on the Big Day; Chapter 10 Where to Get Help; Chapter 11 Threats Actions; Chapter 12 A Few Last Tips;

Editorial Reviews

’...This is a sane, humane, and very readable account of a very complex set of issues. Anyone contemplating an entry into this arena would do very well to prepare themselves by taking her advice.' - Roy Johnson, Mantex.co.uk ’it does a great deal towards demystifying the legal and intellectual property professions and their procedures. The advice is robust, pragmatic and sound...’ Catherine Colston, Law School, University of Strathclyde

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