Manual for the Handling of Applications for Patents, Designs and Trademarks throughout the World Arnold & Siedsma | Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Without question, the Manual for the Handling of Applications for Patents, Designs and Trademarks throughout the World is the most comprehensive, authoritative reference for the international industrial property practice. It consists of 8 volumes. Its exhaustive contents include:

• Separate chapters, in alphabetical order, for nearly 200 countries and several regional industrial property protection systems.

• The full text of the most important convention, treatises, and agreements (including the Paris Convention, the Patent Cooperation
Treaty, and the Madrid Agreement).

• A section on the European Patent System, describing the European Patent Convention and its implementing regulations.

Information is given, inter alia, with respect to the following:

Patents:

• Kinds of Patents available

• Duration of protection

• Who may apply

• What may be patented

• Novelty requirements

• Filing, examination and granting procedure

• Requirements for filing application

• Priority

• Annuities and other fees

• Working requirements

• Compulsory licenses

• Rights of prior use

• Restoration

• Infringement

• Assignment

• Licenses

• Marking

Trademarks:

• Duration of protection

• Legal effect

• Who may apply

• What can be registered as a mark

• What is excluded from registration

• Filing, examination and registration procedure

• Requirements for registration

• Requirements for renewal

• Assignment

• Licenses

• Infringement

• Fees

• Service marks

• Collective marks

• Certification marks

• Marking

• Use requirements

• Protection of well-known marks

• Cancellation

• Invalidation

• Classification

Designs:

• What can be protected

• Duration and renewal

• Who may apply

• Novelty requirements

• Procedure

• Requirements for filing application

• Annuities (if any)

View Sample Chapter.

Features:

Truly global covering nearly 200 countries
Fast and full access to essential primary source material – Search by country, organization, region, subject
Full text of key conventions, treaties and agreements
Reliable and expert analysis and summaries
Entire section devoted to the European Patent Convention and its Implementing Regulations with additional commentary
Regular updates
All relevant public domain material in one place

Benefits:

Advise clients better
Advise clients quicker
Protect IP more effectively
Save time

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“The Manual is by far the best manual on patent, designs, and trademark law around the world. It succeeds in being comprehensive as well as including a large amount of useful detail. Despite the complexity in these constantly developing fields, the publishers succeed in keeping the information sufficiently up-to-date for the practitioner.” Helen Jones Gill Jennings & Every London

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