EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Second Edition (Elgar European Law series) - Hardcover

`The late Catherine Seville was a wonderfully meticulous yet wide-ranging and innovative scholar of intellectual property law. This book on European Union IP law, treating the subject as a whole in its own right, is characteristic of her contribution, and superbly combines overview with critical comment and analysis. With both the EU and IP at something of a crossroads, Catherine's second edition could not be more timely.' -- Hector L. MacQueen, University of Edinburgh Law School, UK `This second edition of EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy is indispensable for students and researchers alike. It is a user-friendly, insightful and comprehensible book.' -- Jamil Ammar, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US and York University, Canada

This fully updated book offers a compact and accessible account of EU intellectual property (IP) law and policy. The digital age brings many opportunities, but also presents continuing challenges to IP law as the EU's programme of harmonisation unfolds. As well as addressing the main IP rights (copyright, patents, designs, trade marks and related rights), the book also considers IP's relationship with the EU's rules on free movement of goods and competition, as well as examining the enforcement of IP rights. Taking account of numerous changes, this timely second edition covers the substantive provisions and procedures which apply throughout the EU, making extensive reference to the case law. The author considers how the exploitation of IP is increasingly global; harmonisation, in contrast, is only partial, even at the EU level. In response, the book sets EU IP law in its wider international context. It also seeks to highlight policy issues and arguments of relevance to the EU, in its relations both within the Union and with the rest of the world. Designed as a compact and approachable account of these difficult and technical areas, and with advice on further reading and research, this unique book is useful both as a work of reference and for more general study. It is essential reading for postgraduate students, academic researchers and legal practitioners alike.