Readings in Intellectual Property A Selection of Articles from EIPR and Ent. L.R.

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1 Readings in Intellectual Property A Selection of Articles from EIPR and Ent. L.R. Editors ALISON FIRTH, SHELLEY LANE, YVONNE SMYTH Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London 1998 SWEET & MAXWELL LONDON

2 Table of Contents Preface v General Aspects of Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Protection after GATT [1994] 5 EIPR 195 John Worthy 3 The Increasing Influence of Intellectual Property Cases on the Principles of Statutory Interpretation [1996] 10 EIPR 526 Abbe E. L. Brown 10 Harmonising Intellectual Properly Laws in the European Union: Past, Present and Future [1995] 8 EIPR 361 Thomas C. Vinje 19 The Final Word on Magill [1995] 6 EIPR 297 Thomas C. Vinje 47 Copyright & Designs: Copyright Copyright: Over-strength, Over-regulated, Over-rated [1996] 5 EIPR 253 Mr Justice Laddie 61 The Canker of Reciprocity [1988] 4 EIPR 99 W. R. Cornish 74 Freedom of Expression in Copyright Law [1984] 1 EIPR 3 Herman Cohen Jehoram 76 The Herschel Smith Lecture 1992: Intellectual Property Rights and Unfair Copying: Old Concepts, New Ideas [1992] 12 EIPR 428 James Lahore 80 Elanco Products The Ideas-Expression Dichotomy [1979] 4 EIPR 117 Gerald Dworkin 91 CBS Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics PLC [1988] 10 EIPR 345 Iain Purvis 97 Demystifying Copyright Infringement of Computer Software [1994] 5 EIPR 206 Laurence Jacobs 100 Copyright Protection for Titles, Character Names and Catch-phrases in the Film and Television Industry [1996] 5 Ent. L.R. 178 Reuben Stone 108 In Defence of Originality [1996] 1 Ent. L.R. 21 Gary Lea 124 Fair Dealing and the Clockwork Orange Case: 'A Thieves Charter'? [1994] 1 Ent. L.R. 6 David Bradshaw 135 Digital Sound Sampler: Weapon of the Technological Pirate or Palette of Modern Artist [1990] 3 Ent. L.R. 87 D. Paul Tackaberry 146

3 viii Contents Copyright Protection for the Information Superhighway [1994] 11 EIPR 465 Allen N. Dixon and Laurie C. Self The Proposed EU Directive for the Legal Protection of Databases: A Cornerstone of the Information Society? [1995] 12 EIPR 583 Laurence Kaye 155 Copyright & Designs: Designs BL v Armstrong in the House of Lords. Our Souls Redeemed from the Company Store [1986] 4 EIPR 117 Christine Fellner By Accident or Design? The Meaning of 'Design' under section 51 CDPA 1988 [1990] 1 EIPR 33 Gerald Dworkin and Richard Taylor European Design Law and the Spare Parts Dilemma: The Proposed Regulation and Directive [1994] 2 EIPR 51 Audrey Horton Passing Off and Trade Marks: Passing Off A Pervasive But Often Not Explicitly Characterised Aspect of Passing Off [1987] 6 EIPR 159 Anthony Walton Passing Off and Image Marketing in the UK [1992] 8 EIPR 257 Mark Elmslie and Margaret Lewis Season of Goodwill: Passing Off and Overseas Traders [1996] 6 EIPR 357 David Rose i 233 Passing Off and Trade Marks: Trade Marks A Consumer Trade Mark: Protection Based on Origin and Quality [1993] 11 EIPR 406 Anselm Kamperman Sanders and Spyros M. Maniatis 247 Does the United Kingdom or the European Community Need an Unfair Competition Law? [1995] EIPR 568 Aidan Robertson and Audrey Horton 264 Trade Marks Invisible at Point of Sale: Some Corking Cases [1990] 7 EIPR 241 Peter Prescott 291 Think Before You Waga Finger [1996] 6 EIPR 317 Peter Prescott 300 The Return to Wagamama [1996] 10 EIPR 524 Anselm Kamperman Sanders 306 Has the Benelux Trade Mark Law Been Written into the Directive? [1997] 3 EIPR 99 Peter Prescott QC 314 The "Threats' Section in the UK Trade Marks Act 1994: Can a Person still Wound without Striking? [1995] 3 EIPR 138 Lim Heng Gee 320 Trade Mark Agreements and EC Law [1996] 5 EIPR 271 Elizabeth McKnight 336

4 Contents ix Does the First Trade Mark Directive Allow International Exhaustion of Rights? [1995] 10 EIPR 463 Nicholas Shea 350 Benelux: A Guide to the Validity of Three-dimensional Trade Marks in Europe [1995] 3 EIPR 154 Benoit Strowel 354 Patents and Related Rights An 'Investment Patent' [1981] 7 EIPR 207 William Kingston 369 Recession and Intellectual Property 'Inovation Warrants' [1981] 12 EIPR 367 William Kingston 374 Is the United States Right about 'First to Invent' [1992] 7 EIPR 223 William Kingston 375 The Patent System What Future Role in the Creation of Wealth? [1983] 4 EIPR 83 Hugh Brett 380 The Patentability of Computer-related Inventions in the United Kingdom and the European Patent Office [1991] 3 EIPR 85 Brad Sherman 383 Patenting Plants Around the World [1996] 10 EIPR 531 Tim Roberts 400 The Morality of Biotech Patents: Differing Legal Obligations in Europe? [1997] 6 EIPR 315 Richard Ford 410 Novelty under the EPC and the Patents Act 1977 [1996] 9 EIPR 511 Richard Doble 417 International Exhibitions [1978] EIPR 29 Mary Vitoria 427 The Question of Obviousness in the Windsurfers Decision [1985] 8 EIPR 218 Jeanne-Marie Claydon 430 Delivering the Goods? [1997] 1 EIPR 21 Ian Karet 438 Over-broad Patent Claims: An Inventive Step by the EPO [1996] 10 EIPR 561 Ian Karet 448 Purposive Construction and Inventive Step [1995] 3 EIPR 147 Paul Cole 452 Section 64 of the UK Patents Act 1977: Right to Continue Use Begun before Priority Date [1994] 6 EIPR 239 Isabel Davies and Simon Cohen 467 Employees' Inventions: Inventorship and Ownership [1997] 5 EIPR 262 P. A. Chandler 477 Breach of Confidence Prince Albert and the Etchings [1984] 12 EIPR 344 Jeremy Phillips 485

5 x Contents Circumstances Importing an Obligation of Confidence: A Subjective or Objective Test? [1996] 11 EIPR 632 Simon Clark 496 Cork v McVicar: Confidential Information and the Public Interest in disclosure [1985] 8 EIPR 234 Allison Coleman 503 Remedies American Cyanamid Revisited [1996] 4 EIPR 234 Michael Edenborough and Guy Tritton 509 Accounting for Profits Gained by Infringement of Copyright: When does it End? [1991] 1 EIPR 5 Lionel Bendy 515 Heads of Damage in Passing Off [1996] 9 EIPR 487 Hazel Carry 535 Damages against the Innocent Infringer [1994] 4 EIPR 205 Roshana Kelbrick 547