<b>Merges</b>, <b>Menell</b>, and <b> Lemley</b> continue to offer broad, accessible coverage of the full range of legal protections for intellectual property. Including seminal and cutting-edge cases and materials, this landmark casebook incorporates practice problems that encourage students to think like practitioners. </p> <p> <b>Timely and forward thinking, the authors of Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age offer:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>complete coverage of basic and cutting-edge Intellectual Property law issues</b> </li> <li> <b>an excellent selection of cases and materials</b> </li> <li> <b>practice problems</b> that develop students’ skills in applying the law </li> <li> <b>a law and economics perspective</b> </li> <li> <b>detailed treatment of new media issues,</b> such as computer software </li> <li> <b>an introduction to biotechnology and the latest legal developments</b> in the Statutory and Case Supplement </li> <li> <b>an Author Website</b> with new cases and developments in IP law </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> <b>Updated throughout, the Fifth Edition offers:</b> </p> <ul> <li> revised patent materials that include the <i><b>Bilski</b></i> decision. </li> <li> changes in <b>patentable subject matter, obviousness</b>, and <b>the law of willfulness</b> </li> <li> new developments in <b>digital copyright law and fair use</b> </li> <li> Trademark chapter revised to include <b>dilution, merchandising, Internet keywords, <i>Rescuecom v. Google</i></b>, and <b>fair use</b> </li> <li> Software cases newly integrated into main chapters </li> </ul> <p> An obvious adoption choice for the IP survey course, the authors’ revised and updated <b>Teacher's Manual</b> now offers <b>alternative syllabi</b> for teaching <b>Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age</b> in <b> 2-credit courses</b> such as <b>Trademark Law or Patents</b>. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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