The Modern Law of Patents

A second edition of this popular title, first published in 2005 and the first new book on the UK Law of Patents for 25 years. This title is an essential resource for patent lawyers and patent attorneys. Written by some of the most eminent IP practitioners in the UK, 'The Modern Law of Patents' offers a fresh and comprehensive exposition of the law relating to patents in the UK and Europe. Extensively revised, the second edition of the book covers the following: * Conception, initial protection, prosecution, expression, validity, transmission, exploitation and infringement * Laws of patents in other jurisdictions in order to provide guidance as to the laws of those countries in relation to the broad questions of prosecution, validity, competition and infringement * Detailed coverage of the laws of patents as they relate to computers, pharmaceuticals, Biotechnological inventions and aspects of the laws of competition, criminal and border controls and inventive products and inventive processes as patented inventions * Guidance in relation to the law of patents from a prosecution and procedural aspect as well as auxiliary aspects (such as human rights and dispositions arising by mere operation of law) * Materials in paper which provide the statutory and practical basis for the existence and subsistence of patents in the United Kingdom and in relation to prosecution of patent applications in the European Patent Office Table of Contents: Part 1. The Law of Patents 1. General Introduction 2. Patentablity 3. Exclusions from Patentability 4. Construction of Patents 5. Priority 6. Infringement Part 2. Transactions, Licensing, Crown Use and Entitlement 7. Entitlement to the patent and employee compensation 8. Ownership of and transactions in patents 9. Licenses of right, compulsory licenses and Crown use Part 3. Prosecution of Patent Applications 10. Prosecution before the Intellectual Property Office 11. Prosecution before the European Patent Office 12. Prosecution under the Patent Cooperation Treaty 13. Claim Drafting Part 4. Procedure, Hearings and Arbitration 14. Infringement and revocation proceedings, declarations of non-infringement 15. Hearings and oral proceedings before the Patent Offices 16. Jurisdiction of the English Courts and enforcement of judgments 17. Arbitration of patent disputes Part 5. Miscellaneous 18. Patents and the law of Competition 19. Border Controls 20. Supplementary protection certificates Appendices A. The history of patent law B. Theory C. Future developments Pleadings and precedents Appendix 1 - United Kingdom Patents Legislation Appendix 2 - European Patent Convention Appendix 3 - Patent Cooperation Treaty Appendix 4 - Supplementary Protection Certificates Appendix 5 - EU Law Appendix 6 - Rules of Court Appendix 7 - Rules of Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office Appendix 8 - International Treaties Appendix 9 - Patent Agents Index