Selected Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, Statutes, Regulations & Treaties, 2008 Edition

The new Edition of this one-volume compilation of statutes for law students has been updated to include the most significant developments of the past year, including: The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006, thoroughly overhauling the law of trademark dilution; The U.S. Safe Web Act, adding numerous provisions to the Federal Trade Commission Act that will allow the FTC to cooperate with foreign law enforcement authorities to combat on-line electronic fraud that crosses national boundaries; Regulatory developments, such as final regulations to implement the Patent and Trademark Office's new electronic filing system, more regulations clarifying the filing date requirements for patent re-examinations, and regulations to implement priority document exchanges between the U.S. PTO and Intellectual Property Offices in other countries; and Revisions to the language of Article 5 of the Madrid Protocol on Trademark Registration, along with a related Interpretative Statement. This edition contains all this new material, along with a few formatting changes that enhance the readability of the volume. Several new and amended regulations appear in this thoroughly updated edition for 2009. These include regulations mandating new procedural requirements in Inter partes administrative trademark cases, changes to the patent rules of practice necessitated by developments in the Patent Cooperation Treaty system, new forms for registering renewal claims of copyright and interim regulations governing online registration of copyright claims.