Intellectual Property: Examples and Explanations

Keeping up with the fast pace of change in Intellectual Property, the third edition of Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property offers timely coverage of central concepts in the proven-effective Examples & Explanations format.

Student-friendly, concise, and timely, Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property features:

• complete coverage keyed to the leading IP casebooks for the survey course
• proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy that fills in any gaps in students' understanding of casebook assignments
• consistent emphasis on central concepts, without digressing into more advanced topics
• free-standing chapters that are easily adapted to any course structure and make this study guide useful to as a reference throughout the semester
• Key Concepts and Policy Issues highlighted in each chapter

Updated throughout, the Third Edition includes:

• new developments effecting Internet service providers
• new material on patents, including landmark Supreme Court cases (on first sale, injunctions, patentable subject matter, licensing, declaratory judgments, nonobviousness, infringement abroad, and experimental use) and key Federal Circuit cases
• minimum statutory damages for downloading music
• originality copyright in forms, digital images of public domain works
• DMCA anticurcumvention provisions
  • new exemptions
  • cases protecting legitimate uses of copyright protected works
• First Amendment limits on Congress' power to expand copyright protection
• international issues, such as copyright restoration for foreign works, and scope of protection abroad for US works
• copyright protection for databases, software, and orphan works
• consumers licensing, such as click-through copyright licenses and arbitration clauses
• new material on fair use
  • thumbnail images in search engines
  • Google Book case
  • Turnitin, on-line plagiarism protection
  • Public records in private databases
  • Legal documents
• new cases on audio books, sampling, and data use restrictions
• new material on patents, including landmark Supreme Court cases and key Federal Circuit cases
• new material on trademark
  • Trademark Dilution Revision Act
  • use of trademarks as keywords in search engine advertising
  • unauthorized use of trademarks in video games and films
  • cases on likelihood of confusion standard, scope of international protection, functionality of trade dress, and fair use of trademarks
• new material on trade secret, such as remedies, reverse engineering, and government use of trade secret information
• new material on state intellectual property law, such as First Amendment limits on right of publicity; unjust enrichment and Intellectual Property law; scope of employee invention assignment agreements; preemption by federal law

Intellectual Property is a big field and continually in the throes of change. Stephen M. McJohn keeps his coverage focused and current in Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property, Third Edition. For a complete, concise, and clear introduction to central IP concepts, trust the proven-effective Examples & Explanations methodology to convey Intellectual Property concepts to your students.