Asia Pacific University Library catalogue

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What are intellectual property rights -- Justification for intellectual property rights -- Sources of intellectual property law -- Enforcement of intellectual property rights and unjustified threats -- Subsistence and duration of copyright -- Authorship and ownership of copyright -- Authors' rights -- Owners' rights, infringement and remedies -- Dealing with copyright -- Defences and the permitted acts -- Orphan works -- Computer programs -- Databases -- Satellite broadcasting -- Circumvention of effective technological measures -- Electronic rights management information -- Rights in performances -- Introduction to design law -- Community design -- The UK registered design -- The UK unregistered design right -- Introduction to trade marks and passing off -- The UK trade mark : registrability and registration -- The UKtrade mark : grounds for refusal of registration and invalidity -- The UK trade mark : property rights, surrender and revocation -- The UK trade mark : rights, infringement and remedies -- The UK trade mark : limitations, groundless threats and criminal offences -- The new EU trade mark directive -- The European Union trade mark -- Passing off -- Malicious falsehood -- Introduction to trade secrets and patents for inventions -- Trade secrets and the law of confidence -- Requirements for the grant of a patent -- Non-inventions excluded from the grant of a patent (as such) -- Other exclusions from the grant of a patent -- Biotechnological patents -- Entitlement to and dealing with patents -- Patent infringement and remedies -- Defences, groundless threats, revocation, invalidity and surrender -- The European patent, unitary patent and unified patents court.