Intellectual Property Law

1: Introduction
I. Copyright
2: Introduction to copyright
3: Subject matter
4: Criteria for protection
5: Authorship and first ownership
6: Nature of the rights
7: Duration of copyright
8: Infringement
9: Defences
10: Moral rights
11: Exploitation and use of copyright
12: Limits on exploitation
13: Rights associated with copyright
II. Patents
14: Introduction to patents
15: Nature of a patent
16: Procedure for grant of a patent
17: Patentable subject matter
18: Novelty
19: Inventive step
20: Internal requirements for patentability
21: Ownership
22: Infringement
23: Exploitation
24: Rights relating to patents
III. The Legal Regulation of Designs
25: How design protection arises in the United Kingdom
26: Subject matter: the requirement that there be a design
27: Grounds for invalidity: novelty, individual character, and relative grounds
28: Ownership, exploitation, and infringement: Registered designs and supplementary unregistered designs
29: Copyright protection for designs
30: Design right
IV. Trade Marks and Passing Off
31: Introduction to passing off and trade marks
32: Passing off
33: Misrepresentation
34: Damage
35: Trade mark registration
36: Subject matter
37: Absolute grounds for refusal
38: Relative grounds for refusal
39: Revocation
40: Infringement
41: Trade mark defences
42: Exploitation and use of trade marks
43: Geographical indications of origin
V. Confidential Information
44: Is the information capable of being protected?
45: Obligation of confidence
46: Breach and defences
47: Misuse of private information
VI. Litigation and Remedies
48: Litigation
49: Civil and criminal remedies

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