1st Edition

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights A Concise Guide for Businesses, Innovative and Creative Individuals

By Jane Lambert Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

What do you do if ... you need to seek a court order against a former employee who has set up in competition with you, having first helped themselves to your customer database? ... Or if you are deluged with complainants who have bought products they thought were yours, but turn out to have been made from inferior materials and without your knowledge or consent? ... Or if you receive a solicitor's... Read more
Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; Chapter 2 Introduction to Intellectual Property; Chapter 3 How the Law Protects Different Intellectual Assets; Chapter 4 Dispute Resolution Options; Chapter 5 Woolf Rules, OK!; Chapter 6 So You Want to Sue Somebody; Chapter 7 What Happens if Neither Side Gives in; Chapter 8 How to Prepare Your Case; Chapter 9 What Happens on the Big Day; Chapter 10 Where to Get Help; Chapter 11 Threats Actions; Chapter 12 A Few Last Tips;

Biography

For more than 11 years Jane Lambert, Founder and Head of Chambers at NIPC Law, has supplied high quality specialist intellectual property services to small businesses and individuals. A practising barrister specializing in IP and technology for many years, Jane established NIPC, the first specialist IP chambers outside London. Her book distils experience gained from working with local patent clinics, inventors' clubs and business advisors as well as with leading patent attorneys and lawyers from around the world.

’...This is a sane, humane, and very readable account of a very complex set of issues. Anyone contemplating an entry into this arena would do very well to prepare themselves by taking her advice.' - Roy Johnson, Mantex.co.uk ’it does a great deal towards demystifying the legal and intellectual property professions and their procedures. The advice is robust, pragmatic and sound...’ Catherine Colston, Law School, University of Strathclyde