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• Title:EU intellectual property law and policy / Catherine Seville, Fellow, Vice-Principal and Director of Studies in Law, Newnham College and Reader in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK.
  
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• Variant Title:European Union intellectual property law and policy
  
• Author/Creator:Seville, Catherine, author.
  
• Published/Created:Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
  

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  • Call Number: KJE2636 .S48 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Intellectual property--European Union countries.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xlix, 537 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Elgar European law.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781781003459 (cased)
  1781003459 (cased)
  9781781003480 (eBook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  2. Copyright and related rights
  2.1. Introduction
  2.2. International conventions
  2.2.1. Early bilateral agreements
  2.2.2. Berne Convention
  2.2.3. Universal Copyright Convention
  2.2.4. Rome Convention
  2.2.5. TRIPS
  2.2.6. WIPO Internet Treaties
  2.2.7. Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
  2.2.8. Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled
  2.3. influence of the European Union
  2.3.1. early survey: the Commission's 1988 Green Paper
  2.3.2. Software Directive
  2.3.3. Rental Directive
  2.3.4. Satellite and Cable Directive
  2.3.5. Term Directive
  2.3.6. Database Directive
  2.3.7. E-Commerce Directive
  2.3.8. Information Society Directive
  2.3.9. Resale Right Directive
  2.3.10. Orphan Works Directive
  2.3.11. Collective Rights Management Directive
  2.3.12. Future Reforms
  3. Patents and related rights
  3.1. Introduction
  3.2. global patent environment
  3.2.1. Paris Convention
  3.2.2. Patent Cooperation Treaty
  3.2.3. TRIPS
  3.2.4. Convention on Biological Diversity
  3.2.5. Patent Law Treaty
  3.3. European Patent Environment
  3.3.1. European Patent Convention
  3.3.1.1. History
  3.3.1.2. EPC 2000
  major changes
  3.3.1.3. EPC
  overview and procedure
  3.3.1.4. Opposition proceedings
  3.3.1.5. Substantive harmonisation
  limits and definitional challenges
  3.3.1.6. Article 69
  interpretation of claims
  3.3.1.7. European patent
  substantive requirements
  (1). Novelty
  Article 54
  (2). Inventive step
  Article 56
  (3). Industrial application
  - Article 57
  (4). Excluded subject matter and exceptions to patentability
  Article 52(2)
  Article 53
  (i). boundary between discoveries and inventions
  (ii). Computer programs and computer-related inventions; business methods
  (iii). Biological subject matter
  Article 53(b)
  (iv). Methods for treatment of the human or animal body
  Article 53(c)
  (v). Morality
  Article 53(a)
  (5). Sufficiency of disclosure
  3.3.2. Other legislative initiatives in European patent law: the London Agreement and the EPLA
  3.3.2.1. London Agreement
  3.3.2.2. European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA)
  3.3.3. Community initiatives in the field of patent law
  3.3.3.1. Community patent: context and history
  3.3.3.2. unitary patent
  3.3.3.3. Supplementary protection certificates
  3.3.3.4. Biotechnology Directive: the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
  3.3.3.5. Utility models
  3.4. Plant variety rights
  3.4.1. History of protection
  3.4.2. UPOV Convention
  3.4.3. Community plant variety right
  4. Designs
  4.1. Introduction
  the concept of design
  4.2. First steps towards EU harmonisation
  4.3. Registered Community Design
  4.4. Community definition of `design'
  4.5. Grounds of invalidity
  4.5.1. Absolute grounds for invalidity
  4.5.2. Relative grounds for invalidity
  4.6. design proprietor's rights
  4.6.1. Initial entitlement
  4.6.2. Assignment and licences
  4.6.3. Duration
  4.6.4. Rights conferred by the design right
  4.6.5. Exceptions and defences
  4.7. Jurisdiction and parallel proceedings
  5. Trade marks and related rights
  5.1. Introduction
  5.2. Treaties administered by WIPO
  5.2.1. Paris Convention
  5.2.2. Madrid Agreement
  5.2.3. Madrid Protocol
  5.2.4. Trademark Law Treaty
  5.2.5. Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
  5.3. TRIPS
  5.4. Community Trade Mark Legislation
  5.4.1. Overview
  5.4.2. Applying for a Community trade mark
  5.4.3. Criteria for registration
  (a). What is a registrable mark?
  (b). absolute grounds for refusal
  (1). Signs which do not conform to the requirements of a trade mark
  (2). `Devoid of any distinctive character'
  (3). Descriptive marks
  (4). Customary and generic marks
  (5). Acquired distinctiveness
  (6). shape exclusions
  (7). remaining absolute grounds for refusal
  (i). Public policy and morality
  (ii). Deceptive marks
  (iii). Special emblems and marks prohibited by law
  (iv). Bad faith
  (c). Relative grounds for refusal
  (1). Earlier trade marks
  (i). Identical trade marks and identical goods
  (ii). Confusingly similar marks and goods
  (iii). Marks with a reputation
  (2). Earlier rights (business identifiers)
  5.4.4. Cancellation of a mark
  5.4.4.1. Invalidity
  5.4.4.2. Revocation
  5.4.5. Infringement
  5.4.6. Defences
  5.4.7. Other EU harmonisation initiatives relevant to trade marks
  (a). Misleading and comparative advertising
  (b). Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
  (c). Domain names
  5.4.8. Community trade marks as objects of property
  5.4.9. Future reforms
  5.5. Geographical indications of origin
  5.5.1. Introduction
  5.5.2. International treaties
  5.5.3. TRIPS
  5.5.4. EU regime
  (1). Geographical indications and designations of origin
  (2). Traditional specialities guaranteed
  (3). Optional quality terms
  6. Intellectual property, free movement and competition
  6.1. Free movement of goods
  an introduction
  6.1.1. Overview of the problem
  three typical cases
  6.1.2. Intellectual property rights
  different rights have different purposes
  6.2. Intellectual Property and free movement of goods in the EU
  6.2.1. treaty: the basic legal framework
  6.2.2. Early case law: the distinction between existence and exercise of rights
  6.2.3. Specific subject matter: definitions
  6.2.4. What is `consent' for the purposes of exhaustion of rights?
  6.2.4.1. Trade marks and the retreat from common origin
  6.2.4.2. Patent rights and the nature of consent
  6.2.4.3. Copyright and neighbouring rights: exhaustion beyond the distribution right?
  6.3. Repackaging: balancing the principle of free movement against the trade mark owner's rights
  6.3.1. Pharmaceuticals
  6.3.2. Repackaging principles
  application to other products?
  6.4. Use of another's trade mark in advertising
  6.5. Goods in transit
  Border Measures Regulation
  6.6. Exhaustion: national, EEA-wide or international?
  6.7. Competition law and intellectual property
  6.7.1. Article 101
  Assignments
  Licensing agreements
  modern approach to the licensing of intellectual property
  Copyright licensing
  the challenges of the digital market
  Collecting societies
  Article 101 and the pharmaceutical industry
  Block exemptions
  technology transfer
  6.7.2. Article 102
  Abuse of a dominant position within the internal market
  Refusal to supply, refusal to license on reasonable terms
  Standard essential patents
  Should the pharmaceutical sector be treated as a special case for the purposes of Article 102?
  7. Enforcement of intellectual property rights
  7.1. TRIPS
  7.2. European Community Measures
  7.2.1. Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC
  7.2.2. Border measures
  7.2.3. Jurisdiction
  The Brussels Regulation
  7.2.4. proposed Trade Secrets Directive.