Intellectual Property: Cases, Materials and Commentary provides extensive reading material, both case extracts and extracts from other relevant sources, which is linked together by expert commentary. Intellectual Property allows readers to gain an in-depth understanding of all aspects of intellectual property law. Questions of policy are examined and discussed throughout the text, linking the various materials and presenting them in a meaningful context."--Publisher.
This second edition of text for law students, first published in 1994, has been revised and updated. Presents a collection of cases and materials relating to the laws of intellectual property and unfair competition, including extracts from articles and reports which are not readily available. Examines questions of policy and considers remedies, enforcement and the administration of intellectual property law. Includes questions, tables of cases and statutes and an index. Ricketson is a professor of commercial law at Monash University, Richardson is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne.
The present study is concerned primarily with just one treaty provision, namely article 9(2) of the Berne Convention. This is often referred to as "the three-step test", and it has come to be regarded as providing the international yardstick for exceptions to exclusive rights...The present study begins with an examination of the relevant rules of treaty interpretation and then moves to apply them to article 9(2) and the later treaty provisions that have adopted its wording. Having thus formulated a workable interpretation of the three-step test, the study then considers whether the quantitative test embodied in subsection 40(3) of the Copyright Act 1968 is consistent with it...The general conclusion of the study is that, in many respects, these provisions do not fulfil the requirements of the three-step test, and recommendations are made as to how these deficienies might be met." -- p. 2.
Introductory comments -- Protecting methods and schemes: some examples -- What is a "business method" patent? -- "Manner of manufacture" within the meaning of s.6 of the Statute of Monopolies -- The history of s.6 of the Statute of Monopolies -- Mere new uses of entities or methods which are well known -- The public interest: general inconvenience -- Should business methods be protectected?: the continuing problem of definition -- National need -- Intenational obligation -- How to proceed? -- Concluding remarks.
Volume II of Sam Houston?s personal correpondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins March 6, 1846, as Houston leaves Texas to take his place in the U. S. Senate. Included in his letters are comments on national politics and life in Washington, D. C., descriptions of politicians and their wives, and his observations on generals of the Mexican War. New information sheds light on his feelings towards being a candidate for the presidency. Family letters give a picture of life on Texas plantations during the mid-1800s. The letters end August 10, 1848, after problems with Oregon have begun and the Mexican War has ended.
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