Selected Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties, 2017 (Selected Statutes)

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The 2017 edition of this venerable collection of primary source materials in intellectual property law incorporates all the latest legislation in the field, making it one of the most up-to-date resources for use in both survey and specialized courses on intellectual property. Among other updates, this new edition includes recent amendments to the Federal Trade Commission Act and the full text of the proposed legislation that may change the way in which the Register of Copyrights is appointed. Of course, the volume retains all the basic IP statutes along with numerous useful additional materials such as provisions of the Restatement of Unfair Competition, and the text of numerous international agreements dealing with intellectual property law, including the relatively new Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs and the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances. With a single investment in this volume students can have a valuable, annotatable resource for use in multiple IP courses and instructors can guide students through actual statutory and regulatory language quickly and efficiently.