Terrell on the Law of Patents 20th ed

Now in its twentieth edition, Terrell on the Law of Patents has been the leading authority on UK patent law since 1884. It provides the most detailed and authoritative commentary on law, practice and procedure – comprehensively covering every stage from application to infringement. It advises on the fundamental aspects of patent law as well as more specialist issues such as FRAND and SPCs. Regularly cited in court, Terrell continues to set the standard by which others are compared and is an essential reference to keep you up to date with the very latest patent law developments.

Key Features:

• Includes the most significant and relevant case law from all levels of the UK Courts, the European Patent Office, the UK Patent Office and the Appeals Boards.
• Explains the application process for UK national patents and European patents.
• Addresses the issue of entitlement and answers the key questions: who may apply for a patent and who may be granted a patent?
• Discusses how to apply for a supplementary protection certificate, the conditions for granting SPCs and their effects.
• Covers FRAND licensing, undertakings and the nature and scope of obligations.
• Outlines the grounds for revocation as defined by the Patents Act 1977.
• Looks at different types of invalidity including lack of novelty, obviousness and insufficiency.
• Clarifies the principles of patent infringement to ascertain whether or not there has been an infringement, as well as outlining statutory exceptions and other defences.
• Discusses actions for infringement and looks at the parties involved, claims forms, trial procedure and remedies.
• Commentary on second medical use claims, human genome sciences and central amendments to patents.
• Explains compulsory licenses and licenses of right.
• Includes a new chapter on plausibility, discussing the criterion for a valid patent claim and addressing the questions: what is the standard of plausibility and what must be rendered plausible?
• Another new chapter on defences to infringement, examining the distinction between statutory and non-statutory defences as well as infringement with respect to the European Patent Convention, Patent Co-operation Treaty and Community Patent Convention.

table of content

1. Patents

 

2. The nature of patentable inventions

 

3. The application

 

4. Entitlement

 

5. The granted patent

 

6. Supplementary protection certificates

 

7. Priority date

 

8. The “person skilled in the art” and common general knowledge

 

9. Construction of the specification and claims

 

10. Invalidity and the grounds of revocation

 

11. Invalidity due to lack of novelty (anticipation)

 

12. Invalidity due to obviousness (lack of inventive step)

 

13. Invalidity due to insufficiency

 

14. Plausibility

 

15. Patent infringement

 

16. Defences to infringement

 

17. Amendment of specifications

 

18. Devolution, assignments and licences, co-ownership and registration

 

19. Compulsory licenses and licenses of right

 

20. FRAND

 

21. Practice and Procedure

 

22. The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court

 

23. Remedies for infringement

 

24. Declarations

 

25. Action to restrain threats

 

26. Use by the crown