Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge

1. Introduction: Types of IPRs. National effect and international relations. Movements for regional rights andinternational harmonisation. Problems of enforcement.2. Patents for inventions: Subject matter, interpretation, validity, infringement. Entitlement and dealings. Employees’inventions. Abuse of monopoly.3. Confidential information: trade secrets, governmental and personal secrets – bases and scope of protection.4. Trade marks, names, get-up, etc: common law liability.5. Trade mark registration: objectives; registrability; continuing validity; infringement.6. Copyright: authors’ rights and neighbouring rights; basic concepts: work, author, originality, term, qualification.Infringement, exceptions and moral rights. Ownership and dealings. Complex products: film, multi-media works.Databases. Industrial Designs.7. Intellectual Property in the EU: freedom to move goods and provide services.READINGIntroductory:Davis, Intellectual Property (3rd ed 2008)General:Aplin and Davis, Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases and Materials (2009)Bently and Sherman, Intellectual Property Law (3rd ed 2008)Cornish and Llewellyn, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (7th ed 2010)Cases and Statutes:Cornish, Materials on Intellectual Property (5th ed 2006)Blackstone’s Statutes on Intellectual Property (8th ed 2006)PAPER 13. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE LAW OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATIONThe course provides a space on the syllabus for discussion of topical issues in EU law, and thus for students to developan academic understanding of the debates which are preoccupying politicians and the media. The content of the courseis necessarily flexible but this year will focus on four issues: the functioning and reform of the EU’s system of judicialprotection, the EU’s system for human rights protection, (de)pillarisation, and competences in the EU.1. The functioning and reform of the EU’s system of judicial protection(i) Seminar on the basic legal provisions concerning the ECJ (preliminary rulings, actions for annulment, etc)(ii) Proposals for procedural/substantive/structural reform of the ECJ(iii) Different perspectives on the ECJ and its role (judicial activism, political science, economics)(iv) Examining the role of the ECJ and its interaction with national systems in different sectors of judicial activity(eg consumer law, free movement law)87