Law of Intellectual Property

This refreshing new approach to IP law: - introduces high interest, cutting-edge applications, problems, and perspectives within the context of traditional IP principles - supplies comprehensive, current coverage by integrating IP case law, theory, and statutes in the expanding contexts for their use - serves as a practical and thorough foundation - makes available the expertise of its authors, all recognized scholars, teachers, and practitioners - makes excellent use of cases -- chosen for the clarity with which they illustrate the principles under discussion as well as their currency and inherent interest -- to offer straightforward statements on and insights into the applicable law - uses supporting text and notes to clarify technological points and emphasize the theory, broad context, and significance of the cases - integrates statutory excerpts -- precisely relevant, distinctively marked, and conveniently placed following each of the book's major subject divisions The book is carefully constructed to facilitate both teaching and learning: - distinctive and insightful "Comparative Perspectives" and "Policy Perspectives" create an enriched context encompassing comparative law, special rules relating to technology, and theoretical views on the topics and issues - numerous problems drawn from actual cases test broad comprehension of principles and statutory materials and introduce key portions of cases - a thorough Teacher's Manual contains guidance for teachers on how to teach from the materials; outlines of the main procedural and substantive points of the cases; discussions of why the cases appear where they do and how each fits into thestructural context of intellectual property law; and suggested answers for all questions raised and problems presented in the textNard, Craig Allen is the author of 'Law of Intellectual Property', published 2006 under ISBN 9780735553798 and ISBN 0735553793.