Questions & Answers: Intellectual Property

by Gary Myers, Lee Ann Lockridge

Overview

The questions and answers in this book are designed to cover the broad subject of "intellectual property" in a comprehensive way. All of the major subjects in this fascinating area of law are included in this book—including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, the right of publicity, and unfair competition. The key aspects of each of these areas of law are addressed in a systematic way—subject matter and validity, ownership and duration of rights, infringement and remedies, and defenses and limitations.

Aside from this legal framework, however, it is important to know that intellectual property covers an amazing array of varied creative endeavor. That is because intellectual property law has an impact on the most dynamic activities and enterprises in today's interconnected world—movies, music, the Internet, social media, inventive activity, business franchises, and entrepreneurship. If you can answer or at least understand the questions and answers in this book, you are ready to begin a journey into the most interesting area of law available to us today. Each of the questions in this book has an answer that is superior to the other possible answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630435981
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Series:	Questions & Answers Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gary Myers is the Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law at University of Missouri School of Law.

Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge is the David Weston Robinson Professor of Law and the McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.