Intellectual Property</b> offers timely coverage of central concepts in the proven-effective <i><b>Examples & Explanations</b></i> format. </p> <p> <b>Student-friendly, concise, and timely, <i>Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property</i> features:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>complete coverage keyed to the leading IP casebooks</b> for the survey course </li> <li> <b>proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy </b>that fills in any gaps in students’ understanding of casebook assignments </li> <li> <b>consistent emphasis on central concepts</b>, without digressing into more advanced topics </li> <li> <b>free-standing chapters</b> that are easily adapted to any course structure and make this study guide useful to as a reference throughout the semester </li> <li> <i><b>Key Concepts </b></i>and<i><b> Policy Issues </b></i>highlighted in each chapter </li> </ul> <p> <b>Updated throughout, the Third Edition includes:</b> </p> <ul> <li> new developments effecting <b>Internet service providers</b> </li> <li> new material on <b>patents</b>, including landmark Supreme Court cases (on first sale, injunctions, patentable subject matter, licensing, declaratory judgments, nonobviousness, infringement abroad, and experimental use) and key Federal Circuit cases </li> <li> minimum statutory damages for <b>downloading music</b> </li> <li> <b>originality</b>—copyright in forms, digital images of public domain works </li> <li> <b>DMCA anticurcumvention provisions</b> <ul> <li> new exemptions </li> <li> cases protecting legitimate uses of copyright protected works </li> </ul> </li> <li> <b>First Amendment limits on Congress' power to expand copyright protection</b> </li> <li> <b>international issues</b>, such as copyright restoration for foreign works, and scope of protection abroad for US works </li> <li> <b>copyright protection for databases, software, and orphan works</b> </li> <li> <b>consumers licensing</b>, such as click-through copyright licenses and arbitration clauses </li> <li> new material on<b> fair use</b> <ul> <li> thumbnail images in search engines </li> <li> Google Book case </li> <li> <i>Turnitin</i>, on-line plagiarism protection </li> <li> Public records in private databases </li> <li> Legal documents </li> </ul> </li> <li> new cases on <b>audio books, sampling, and data use restrictions</b> </li> <li> new material on <b>patents</b>, including landmark Supreme Court cases and key Federal Circuit cases </li> <li> new material on <b>trademark</b> <ul> <li> Trademark Dilution Revision Act </li> <li> use of trademarks as keywords in search engine advertising </li> <li> unauthorized use of trademarks in video games and films </li> <li> cases on likelihood of confusion standard, scope of international protection, functionality of trade dress, and fair use of trademarks </li> </ul> </li> <li> new material on <b>trade secret</b>, such as <b>remedies, reverse engineering,</b> and government use of <b>trade secret information </b> </li> <li> new material on <b>state intellectual property law</b>, such as First Amendment limits on right of publicity; unjust enrichment and Intellectual Property law; scope of employee invention assignment agreements; preemption by federal law </li> </ul> <p> Intellectual Property is a big field and continually in the throes of change. <b> Stephen M. McJohn</b> keeps his coverage focused and current in <b>Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property, Third Edition</b>. For a complete, concise, and clear introduction to central IP concepts, trust the proven-effective <i><b>Examples & Explanations</b></i> methodology to convey Intellectual Property concepts to your students. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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