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Intellectual Proptery Lawcards

Chapter 2: Confidential Information

  • Basic elements of breach of confidence
  • Categories of protectable information
  • The essential elements of breach of confidence; information, obligation of confidence and risk of damage
  • The public interest defence
  • Remedies: damages and injunctions

Chapter 3: Patents

  • Patentability criteria: novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability
  • Categories of work excluded from patentability
  • Patent application procedure
  • Infringement and defences
  • Exhaustion in patent law
  • Revocation of patents
  • Ownership of patents, including employee inventions
  • Damages in patent actions

Chapter 4: Copyright

  • International agreements in copyright
  • Copyright must subsist in the work
  • The requirement of originality in copyright
  • Copyright protects expression and not ideas
  • Categories of protected work under s 1(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
  • Infringement issues: substantiality and causal connection
  • Authorship
  • Secondary infringement
  • Permitted acts
  • Ownership of copyright
  • Remedies: damages and injunctions

Chapter 5: Passing Off

  • The elements of passing off: the 5 part and 3 part tests
  • The requirement of goodwill
  • Misrepresentation and deception
  • The use of personal names under passing off
  • Actionable damage; diversion of custom or damage to reputation
  • Remedies

Chapter 6: Malicious falsehood

  • Elements of malicious falsehood
  • Malice
  • False statements
  • Damage

Chapter 7: Character Merchandising

  • Defamation – use of defamatory images
  • Copyright – protection of the physical expression of a character
  • Trade marks
  • Passing off

Chapter 8: Registered Trade Marks

  • The registration system – advantages of its use
  • Registrability of a trade mark
  • Rights in a trade mark – protection against unauthorised use
  • Comparison of trade marks – similarity and likelihood of confusion
  • Damages for infringement

Chapter 9: Design Rights

  • Registered designs under the Registered Designs Act 1949 – registrability
  • Unregistered designs under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 – definitions
  • Infringement and remedies
  • Chapter 10: Remedies
  • Injunctions – permanent and interlocutory
  • Pre-trial orders – prevention of destruction of evidence
  • Damages
  • Criminal sanctions