This chapter concerns food fraud, including what it is, what is being done to counter it, and what we might do to counter it better. The concept of food fraud has tended to be overshadowed by other food-related terms like food security and food safety. Nowadays, food inauthenticity is not just...

Exclusionary subject matter are often underpinned by public interest considerations. In the case of shapes of products, the Court of Justice of the European Union has aligned the interpretation of the relevant exclusionary provisions within design and trade mark laws . More recently, European...

There has been, in the last two decades, a growing belief within the intellectual property fraternity as to the desirability for and the relevance of a further tier of patent-like protection within the general intellectual property framework. Such laws, usually referred to as utility model laws,...

The zeitgeist of this century and the foreseeable future is not only to celebrate humanity's cultural heritage but to also preserve and maintain it for future generations, whilst ensuring its current accessibility to the public. This task is vested in libraries, museums, archives and other...

Copyright is accepted as being the necessary and efficient response to the need of authors and publishers to appropriate the economic value of copyright works from users. Nevertheless, difficulties arise when such works are both produced and consumed within universities. The law recognizes that...

Innovation and development / Graham Dutfield -- Innovation and the law of intellectual property / Uma Suthersanen & Graham Dutfield -- Utility models and other alternatives to patents / Uma Suthersanen & Graham Dutfield -- Policy considerations for governments governments / Uma Suthersanen &...