To be confirmed

This course is optional for Parts I and II LLB. It is also available to students on BA Anthropology and Law and to General Course students. Not available as an outside option.

An introduction to the law relating to copyright, registered trademarks and patents. These legal regimes will be considered against the backdrop of an analysis of intellectual property law's history and theoretical foundations, its increasing importance in underpinning the 'knowledge economy', and the issues arising from the harmonisation of standards of intellectual property protection worldwide.

Two lectures per week; classes fortnightly.

Students will be expected to submit two pieces of written work during the year.

The recommended text will be Lionel Bently & Brad Sherman, Intellectual Property Law (3rd edn) (Oxford University Press 2008), and students will also be required to purchase one of the available edited collections of statutes. The full reading list will be issued at the beginning of the year.

The course will be assessed by way of a three-hour examination in the ST (plus an additional 15 minutes reading time).