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AUSTRALIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW THIRD EDITION
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Updated to include recent important developments in Australian intellectual property law, this is an essential text for students and professionals.
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PUBLICATION PLANNED FOR: December 2015 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781107472297
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AUSTRALIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Intellectual property law in Australia is a constantly changing field. Developments in technology, such as in the life sciences and in the digitisation of the creation, analysis, distribution and use of information, along with economic globalisation, are having an increasingly significant impact on this field of law. The third edition of Australian Intellectual Property Law has been updated to include the most important recent developments in intellectual property law, including:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHORS:
1. Introduction
Mark Davison, Monash University, Victoria. Mark Davison is Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Special Counsel with Knightsbridge Lawyers and a member of the Intellectual Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
• the ‘Raising the Bar’ amendments to the Patents Act and case law concerning the meaning of ‘manner of manufacture’ • proposed reforms to the Copyright Act • the High Court’s consideration of trademarks in various contexts • recent statutory changes and court judgments.
8. Exploitation, infringement and defences
Through its comprehensive discussion of the black-letter aspects of the law, and primary emphasis on legal principles and complexities, Australian Intellectual Property Law continues to offer a detailed and scholarly insight into Australian intellectual property law for students and professionals.
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2. Passing off 3. Registered trade marks 4. Exploitation of registered trade marks 5. Copyright: introduction 6. Subsistence of copyright 7. Authorship and first ownership, nature of the rights and duration 9. Moral rights, performers’ rights, artist’s resale rights, and other rights 10. Designs 11. Equitable doctrine of breach of confidence
Leanne Wiseman, Griffith University, Queensland. Leanne Wiseman is Associate Professor in the School of Law at Griffith University and a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Ann Monotti, Monash University, Victoria. Dr Ann Monotti is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies at the Faculty. She is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
12. Patents for inventions: introduction 13. Patents for inventions: validity 14. Patents for inventions: allocation of rights and ownership, the Register and dealings 15. Patents for inventions: exploitation, infringement and revocation 16. Plant breeder’s rights 17. Remedies and miscellaneous issues.
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