Some IP books for review

The Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) has received a further batch of new intellectual property law titles for review.  They are listed below.  If you are seriously interested in reviewing one of them for the journal and believe yourself to be suitably qualified to do so, please email Sarah Harris at sarah.harris@oup.com by not later than Thursday 15 March 2012 and let her know. If you have not previously reviewed a title for JIPLP, please state why you'd like to review the title of your choice.

Please remember: authors, publishers and our readers depend on your assessment of books that are sent for review. If, once you have received the book, you don't feel that you can review it, we ask you to send it back to us so that we can pass it on to another reviewer.

The books available for review are as follows:

• Developing a legal paradigm for patents, by Helen Gubby, published by Eleven International Publishing. The author is an attorney and expert in legal terminology and linguistics with experience of both common and civil law systems. This book is a historical analysis which shows that the dialogue today over the role and function of the patent system is both based on and reflected by judicial decision-making in earlier times. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• The Oxford introductions to US law: Intellectual property, by Dan Hunter, published by Oxford University Press. The author explains how intellectual property has contributed greatly to the innovations that society needs today, describing ways in which the expansion of IP can reduce innovation by stopping others from implementing great ideas or producing new work. The author seeks to help readers think about modern IP in a way that allows them to see how innovation and progress are linked to IP law, and how small changes in the laws have had significant consequences for our society. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• How to fix copyright, by Bill Patry, published by Oxford University Press. This controversial author's thesis is based on what he describes as "the need to recognize that the consumer is king".  Patry maintains that law can only solve legal problems, not business problems, and too often an attempt is made to invoke law in order to solve business problems. He also offers a series of pragmatic fixes that steer a middle course between an overly expansive interpretation of copyright protection and abandoning it altogether. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts (7th edition), composed by a team of authors on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, published by Sweet & Maxwell. This is the most recent edition of a standard reference work for patent practitioners. It contains section-by-section references to relevant United Kingdom and European Patent Office case law. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• A user’s guide to patents (3rd edition), by Trevor Cook, published by Bloomsbury Professional. A companion to the same publisher's user's guides to copyright, designs and trade marks, and with a further user's guide to data protection in the pipeline, the latest edition of this popular and widely-used book has a strongly practical flavour to it. The author, a partner in Bird & Bird LLP, is a highly respected senior member of the British intellectual property community. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• The essentials of patent claim drafting, by Morgan D Rosenberg, published by Oxford University Press. A practical guide to the drafting of patent claims in US patent applications, this volume emphasises the how-to of claim drafting, rather than on the history and theory of claiming. It contains multiple examples for all types of claims which a practitioner is likely to draft, and provides an easy reference for the drafting of particular types of claims. It is written primarily for novice patent attorneys and patent agents, as well as law students and those studying for the US Patent Bar Exam. Further details available from the publisher's website here.

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• Rezensionen Neu Ergänzende Schutzzertifikate / Supplementary Protection Certificates, by Christopher Brückner, published by Carl Heymanns Verlag. The author, a Patentanwalt, Apotheker, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich, has compiled a German/English handbook of the law on supplementary protection certificates and paediatric extensions for pharmaceutical patents, with the cooperation of Peter von Czettritz, a Rechtsanwalt, Preu Bohlig & Partner, Munich. An Further details available from the publisher's website here.