A User's Guide to Patents 5th Edition
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- Author: TREVOR COOK
- ISBN: 9781526508683
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A User's Guide to Patents, Fifth Edition provides guidance on
the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important
in day-to-day practice. This new edition sets out how patents can be obtained,
exploited and enforced and addresses wider public policy aspects of patents and
their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that
affect legal practitioners. It is essential reading for IP practitioners,
solicitors and barristers, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers, management
executives and inventors. Unique selling points: Explains how patents can be
exploited and enforced by reference to the most recent UK and EPO case law
Identifies and discusses the different patent law issues that can arise in
specific industrial sectors Full tabulation of all English patent validity and
infringement decisions given after full trial since 1997 Addresses wider public
policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and
likely future trends in the field, both in Europe and internationally The
following relevant developments are included: The new UK law as to infringement
by equivalents following Actavis v Lilly (UKSC 2017) The degree to which new
types of plant, produced by using certain modern biotechnological techniques,
can be patented in the light of the exclusion for 'products obtained by
essentially biological processes' and the ongoing controversy as to this
between the EPO, the EPO Boards of Appeal and the EU The developing case law in
the UK and the EPO on plausibility in the context of insufficiency and
obviousness The Unjustified Threats Act 2017 and other procedural developments,
such as those involving Arrow type declarations of obviousness Developments in
standards related patent litigation, as in Unwired Planet v Huawei (Patents
Court 2017, CA 2018).