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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Guidebook to Intellectual Property by Robin Jacob Daniel Alexander Matthew Fisher
This is a unique book about Intellectual Property. It is aimed not only at law students studying the subject but at interested users of IP - business people inventors scientists designers and others. It tries not only to provide an outline of the basic legal principles but also aims at showing how the system actually works. You cannot understand chess by merely learning the rules - for that you have to know how the game is played. So also with Intellectual Property. To achieve its object the authors deliberately avoid technicalities and keep it simple yet direct. There are no footnotes to distract. Although cases are inevitably referred to they are explained in a pithy accessible manner. The authors try wherever possible to be both serious and light-hearted at the same time.All the major areas of IP patents trade marks copyright and designs are covered along with brief mentions of other rights such as those in plant varieties and databases.A novice reader of this book should come away both with a clear outline of IP law and a feeling for how it works. Students will be able to put their more detailed study into perspective. Users will be able to understand better how IP affects them and their businesses.