Property Law

A comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on all aspects of intellectual and industrial property. Clear explanation of concepts and principles as well as a multitude of case law.

This book provides a detailed and scholarly insight into Australian intellectual property law. It aims to offer students and legal professionals a detailed discussion of the black-letter aspects of the law, with the primary emphasis on the legal principles and complexities within.

This book covers the areas of intellectual property law that are most relevant to both product and technological innovation. This book takes a comparative approach, but focuses principally on the law in English speaking jurisdictions, especially Australia.

Provides extensive reading material, both case extracts and extracts from other relevant sources, which is linked together by expert commentary.

An insightful treatment of the various trends and tensions that exist with the individual regimes devoted to particular forms of intellectual property.

Comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of the cases and legislation which comprise intellectual property law. Resale royalty rights for visual artists to its coverage of the major IP topics: copyright, moral rights, performers' protection, patents, trademarks, designs, plant breeder's rights, circuit layouts and confidential information.

This informative book investigates how indigenous and traditional knowledge has been produced and positioned within intellectual property law and the effects of this position in both national and international jurisdictions.

This book navigates every aspect of the patenting process, with detailed commentary on the law pertaining to each stage including significant case law developments and legislative change since 2008.

In the modern era where the rise of the knowledge economy is accompanied, if not facilitated, by an ever-expanding use of intellectual property rights, this timely book provides a much needed explanation to the relationship between intellectual property law and human rights law.

This work offers an analysis of the Western formal system of private property and its moral justification and explains the relevance of the institution to particular current issues that face aboriginal peoples and the developing world. The subjects under study include broadly: aboriginal land claims; third world development; intellectual property rights and the relatively recent TRIPs agreement (Trade related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). Within these broad areas we highlight the following concerns: the maintenance of cultural integrity; group autonomy; economic benefit; access to health care; biodiversity; bio piracy and even the independence of the recently emerged third world nation states. Despite certain apparent advantages from embracing the Western institution of private ownership, the text explains that the Western institution of private property is undergoing a fundamental redefinition through the expansion.