Australian Intellectual Property Law (4^th Ed.)

The fourth edition of Australian Intellectual Property Law provides a detailed and comprehensive, yet concise and accessible discussion of intellectual property law in Australia. This edition has been thoroughly revised to cover the most recent developments in intellectual property law, including significant case law and discussion of the proposed and enacted amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) and the Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994 (Cth). The text has been restructured, but continues to provide a complete discussion of the black-letter aspects of the law. Commencing with copyright, then followed by design law, confidential information, patents, plant breeder's rights, then finally trade marks. The work ends with a chapter on enforcing legal rights and civil remedies. Written by highly-respected intellectual property law researchers this text is an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and other professionals working with intellectual property.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; Part II. Copyright, Designs and Related Rights: 2. Copyright: introduction; 3. Copyright: subsistence; 4. Copyright: authorship, first ownership, and nature and duration of rights; 5. Copyright: exploitation, infringement and defences; 6. Areas related to copyright: moral rights, performers' rights, artist's resale rights, and other related rights; 7. Designs; Part III: Patents: 8. Equitable doctrines of breach of confidence; 9. Patents for inventions: introduction; 10. Patents for inventions: validity; 11. Patents for inventions: allocation of rights and ownership, the Register and dealings; 12. Patents for inventions: exploitation, infringement and revocation; 13. Plant breeder's rights; Part IV. Trade Marks: 14. Passing off; 15. Registered trade marks; 16. Exploitation of registered trade marks; Part V. Enforcement Of Rights: 17. Remedies and miscellaneous issues.

Mark J. Davison is Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Victoria, Special Counsel with Knightsbridge Lawyers and a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Ann L. Monotti is Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Victoria and the Centre's former inaugural Director. She is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Leanne Wiseman is Associate Professor in the School of Law at Griffith University, Queensland and a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.