Overview
This encyclopedia defines and analyzes nearly 800 words, phrases, statutes, and conventions on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, entertainment, and computer law. It includes new entries to reflect emerging areas of IP law, including: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Anti-Cybersquatting Act, the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, Business Method, Anti-Circumvention, Markman Hearing, and First Inventor Defense. Entries define the patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and use them in context to explain the various legal scenarios in which they exist. Entries also analyze relevant cases and statutes, and provide citations to numerous critical cases and IP treatises for additional research. Also included are a table of cases, appendices that list the treatises used by the authors, and chronologically organized lists of all patent and trademark directors, commissioners, and registers of copyrights. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
This encyclopedia defines and analyzes nearly 800 words, phrases, statutes, and conventions on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, entertainment, and computer law. It includes new entries to reflect emerging areas of IP law, including: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Anti-Cybersquatting Act, the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, Business Method, Anti-Circumvention, Markman Hearing, and First Inventor Defense. Entries define the patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and use them in context to explain the various legal scenarios in which they exist. Entries also analyze relevant cases and statutes, and provide citations to numerous critical cases and IP treatises for additional research. Also included are a table of cases, appendices that list the treatises used by the authors, and chronologically organized lists of all patent and trademark directors, commissioners, and registers of copyrights. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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An encyclopedic dictionary that explains and annotates some 700 words and phrases on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, entertainment, and computer law. The 70 new entries to this edition (first was 1991) include recent additions to the field's lexicon from the GATT and NAFTA agreements and other manifestations of increased globalization. Each entry identifies the term's area of intellectual property law and explains its meaning and usage, with examples that illustrate complex concepts. Entries are cross-referenced to cases, laws, treatises, and other entries in the volume. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)