Why IP?: a compendium

Introduction
A Briefest of Histories

Further Information:

The legal issues affecting a new brand name
The legal issues affecting a new logo
The legal issues affecting a new design
Protecting a new brand name or new logo
Protecting new designs
Protecting ideas
A Trade Mark Attorney
Enforcement
Defending a trade mark
Defending other IP rights
Delimitation of rights
Licensing
Franchising
Exploitation of IP rights
Exploitation of Intellectual Property rights: raising funds and securitisation
Intellectual Property Rights as investments
Acquisition and transfer
Registration of transactions
• E-commerce and the internet have revolutionised business and communications enabling
businesses to communicate and sell or buy goods or services instantaneously and to extend their
geographical reach far beyond their locality. Websites and URLs or domain names are the usual tools
through which businesses advertise and sell their products and services.
Trade Marks and the internet/e-commerce
Domain names, “ownership” of a name and cyber-squatting
Disputing domain names
Websites and e-commerce – legal issues
Contractual issues in e-commerce
The legal issues affecting advertising
Intellectual Property and Insurance
Intellectual Property and Insolvency

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