{"product_id":"a-users-guide-to-patents-trevor-cook-9781526508683","title":"A User's Guide to Patents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA User's Guide to Patents, Fifth Edition \u003c\/i\u003eprovides guidance on the areas of European and UK patent law and procedure that are most important in day-to-day practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition sets out how patents can be obtained, exploited and enforced and addresses wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends that affect legal practitioners. It is essential reading for IP practitioners, solicitors and barristers, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers, management executives and inventors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnique selling points: \u003cbr\u003e Explains how patents can be exploited and enforced by reference to the most recent UK and EPO case law\u003cbr\u003e Identifies and discusses the different patent law issues that can arise in specific industrial sectors\u003cbr\u003e Full tabulation of all English patent validity and infringement decisions given after full trial since 1997\u003cbr\u003e Addresses wider public policy aspects of patents and their economic significance, as well as past and likely future trends in the field, both in Europe and internationally \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe following relevant developments are included: \u003cbr\u003e The new UK law as to infringement by equivalents following \u003ci\u003eActavis v Lilly\u003c\/i\u003e (UKSC 2017)\u003cbr\u003e The degree to which new types of plant, produced by using certain modern biotechnological techniques, can be patented in the light of the exclusion for 'products obtained by essentially biological processes' and the ongoing controversy as to this between the EPO, the EPO Boards of Appeal and the EU\u003cbr\u003e The developing case law in the UK and the EPO on plausibility in the context of insufficiency and obviousness\u003cbr\u003e The Unjustified Threats Act 2017 and other procedural developments, such as those involving Arrow type declarations of obviousness\u003cbr\u003e Developments in standards related patent litigation, as in \u003ci\u003eUnwired Planet v \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuawei \u003c\/i\u003e(Patents Court 2017, CA 2018)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trevor Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526508680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526508683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tottel Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.89d","brand":"Trevor Cook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001611698431,"sku":"9781526508683","price":182.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3295b112-7f8a-4611-9a50-ec862b29bd66.jpg?v=1751601594","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-users-guide-to-patents-trevor-cook-9781526508683","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}