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9781780434896 English 1780434898 A User's Guide to Patents, 4th edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. It sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced as well as addressing wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners. The fourth edition is brought fully up to date to include the introduction of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) and how it will work in practice. Fully updated to include the latest developments, this fourth edition will be of great use to in-house lawyers, solicitors and barristers, as well as professionals interested in patents, including patent agents, and top level management executives. Contents includes: Part 1 Patents generally: 1. Introduction to the patent system 2. Applying for and securing the grant of a patent 3. Transactions with patents and with patent applications 4. Procedures in disputes concerning patents 5. Patent validity - substantive law 6. Patent infringement - substantive law Part II Patents in specific areas of technology 7. Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals 8. Biotechnology patents 9. Patents in electronics, communications, computing and for business methods Part III Appendices (Series: A User's Guide to...) [Subject: Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright, Data Protection], A User's Guide to Patents, Fourth Edition provides a user friendly thorough guide to UK patent law, focusing on the real issues encountered in practice. Covering all aspects of UK patent law, it explains how to secure patent protection, exploit patents through licensing and enforce patents in litigation. The particular focus is on the issues of substantive patent law that are most commonly encountered in practice and how the courts in the UK, or the Boards of Appeal in the European Patent Office, have sought to resolve these. As such it picks a path though this maze by drawing on the most generally accepted and most useful formulations of the law as provided by those tribunals. This fourth edition includes: Chapters devoted to patent law issues in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, biotechnology, electronics, communications and computing, All relevant case law since 2011 from: the English Patents Court; the Court of Appeal, other UK courts and tribunals on patents; the European Patent Office Board of Appeal; and the EU Court of Justice, Patents Act 1977 as amended, European Patent Convention 2000, Discussion on the Unified Patent Court, which is likely to come into effect in 2017, Full listing of English Patents Court and Court of Appeal patent decisions and their outcomes since 1997, Patents County Court and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court patent decisions, A User's Guide to Patents, Fourth Edition is a first port of call for anyone looking to understand any issue of patent law and who wants to be guided to the most generally accepted and most useful formulations of such law as provided by the courts in the UK, the Boards of Appeal in the European Patent Office and the Court of Justice of the EU. As such, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers, solicitors, barristers, lawyers from outside the UK, management executives and inventors should all invest in a copy. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in general IP law who need access to the law quickly and easily. Book jacket., A User's Guide to Patents, fourth edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. It sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced as well as addressing wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners.The fourth edition is brought fully up to date to include the introduction of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) and how it will work in practice.Fully updated to include the latest developments, this fourth edition will be of great use to in-house lawyers, solicitors and barristers, as well as professionals interested in patents, including patent agents, and top level management executives.Contents includes:Part 1 Patents generally:1. Introduction to the patent system2. Applying for and securing the grant of a patent3. Transactions with patents and with patent applications4. Procedures in disputes concerning patents5. Patent validity - substantive law6. Patent infringement - substantive lawPart II Patents in specific areas of technology7. Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals8. Biotechnology patents9. Patents in electronics, communications, computing and for business methodsPart III AppendicesPrevious edition ISBN: 9781847668905
9781780434896 English 1780434898 A User's Guide to Patents, 4th edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. It sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced as well as addressing wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners. The fourth edition is brought fully up to date to include the introduction of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) and how it will work in practice. Fully updated to include the latest developments, this fourth edition will be of great use to in-house lawyers, solicitors and barristers, as well as professionals interested in patents, including patent agents, and top level management executives. Contents includes: Part 1 Patents generally: 1. Introduction to the patent system 2. Applying for and securing the grant of a patent 3. Transactions with patents and with patent applications 4. Procedures in disputes concerning patents 5. Patent validity - substantive law 6. Patent infringement - substantive law Part II Patents in specific areas of technology 7. Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals 8. Biotechnology patents 9. Patents in electronics, communications, computing and for business methods Part III Appendices (Series: A User's Guide to...) [Subject: Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright, Data Protection], A User's Guide to Patents, Fourth Edition provides a user friendly thorough guide to UK patent law, focusing on the real issues encountered in practice. Covering all aspects of UK patent law, it explains how to secure patent protection, exploit patents through licensing and enforce patents in litigation. The particular focus is on the issues of substantive patent law that are most commonly encountered in practice and how the courts in the UK, or the Boards of Appeal in the European Patent Office, have sought to resolve these. As such it picks a path though this maze by drawing on the most generally accepted and most useful formulations of the law as provided by those tribunals. This fourth edition includes: Chapters devoted to patent law issues in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, biotechnology, electronics, communications and computing, All relevant case law since 2011 from: the English Patents Court; the Court of Appeal, other UK courts and tribunals on patents; the European Patent Office Board of Appeal; and the EU Court of Justice, Patents Act 1977 as amended, European Patent Convention 2000, Discussion on the Unified Patent Court, which is likely to come into effect in 2017, Full listing of English Patents Court and Court of Appeal patent decisions and their outcomes since 1997, Patents County Court and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court patent decisions, A User's Guide to Patents, Fourth Edition is a first port of call for anyone looking to understand any issue of patent law and who wants to be guided to the most generally accepted and most useful formulations of such law as provided by the courts in the UK, the Boards of Appeal in the European Patent Office and the Court of Justice of the EU. As such, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers, solicitors, barristers, lawyers from outside the UK, management executives and inventors should all invest in a copy. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in general IP law who need access to the law quickly and easily. Book jacket., A User's Guide to Patents, fourth edition provides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. It sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced as well as addressing wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners.The fourth edition is brought fully up to date to include the introduction of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) and how it will work in practice.Fully updated to include the latest developments, this fourth edition will be of great use to in-house lawyers, solicitors and barristers, as well as professionals interested in patents, including patent agents, and top level management executives.Contents includes:Part 1 Patents generally:1. Introduction to the patent system2. Applying for and securing the grant of a patent3. Transactions with patents and with patent applications4. Procedures in disputes concerning patents5. Patent validity - substantive law6. Patent infringement - substantive lawPart II Patents in specific areas of technology7. Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals8. Biotechnology patents9. Patents in electronics, communications, computing and for business methodsPart III AppendicesPrevious edition ISBN: 9781847668905