Four books (and one app) in search of a reviewer

If you fancy something to read over Easter, or simply wish to keep up with the latest IP scholarship, JIPLP is happy to provide you with some inspiration and a chance to try your hands at some book (and app) reviewing. Our latest batch of books includes an intriguing edited volume on trade mark transactions, an original overview of the crossroads between patent rights and access to science, an authoritative multilingual treatise on saisie-contrefaçon, and an edited collection of seminal IP essays.

If books are not your cup of tea, or if your interest in IP has a markedly technological side, a new patent-centric mobile app, VPATAPP, is also available for review. The app is freely available on Apple's App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android).

As usual, if you are interested in reviewing one of the books, or the mobile app, please contact our managing editor, Sarah Harris (sarah.harris@oup.com), by close of play on Thursday 24 March. If you have not collaborated with JIPLP before, please attach a CV or tell us why you believe that you are qualified to review your chosen book or app.

Deadline: Thursday 24 March.

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App title: VPATAPP

Freely available for Android and iOS devices:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gunadhya.vpatapp&hl=en (Android)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vpatapp/id1072275002?mt=8 (iOS)

This tiny app provides quick links for 1. Worldwide Patent law firms directory; 2. Worldwide patent blogs from different regions like USA, Europe, BRIC, Latin America, Africa, and Asia-pacific including India; 3. Journals in the area of Intellectual Property Law especially patents; 4. Weekly or monthly official gazettes or registers published by different patent offices across the world; 5. Patent classification systems; 6. Patent search websites available from patent offices across the world; 7. Updated full text patent acts of different countries as published by the patent offices or WIPO; 8. Worldwide full time LLM/Masters/ Graduate courses in IP; 9. Links for Supplementary Protection Certificates across different European countries.

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Title: The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions: A Global and Local Outlook

Editors: Irene Calboli, Jacques De Werra

Publisher: Edward Elgar

The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions is a comprehensive analysis of the law governing trademark transactions in a variety of legal and business contexts, and from a range of jurisdictional and cross-border perspectives. After mapping out the international legal framework applicable to trademark transactions, the book provides an analysis of important strategic considerations, including: tax strategies; valuation; portfolio splitting; registration of security interests; choice-of-law clauses; trademark coexistence agreements, and dispute resolution mechanisms.

Further information is available from the book's web page here.

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Title: Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property, Vol 1

Editors: Peter Drahos, Gustavo Ghidini and Hanns Ullrich

Publisher: Edward Elgar

The field of intellectual property has broadened and deepened in so many ways, and at such pace, that there is a tendency for academic commentators to focus on the next new thing, or to react immediately to judicial developments, rather than to reflect more deeply on the greater themes of the discipline. The Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property series is a series of books that are designed to fulfill this role by creating a forum for essays that take a critical, long-term approach to the field of intellectual property. Breaking down the barriers of specialization, and laying the foundation for an emergent critical scholarship, this first book in the series brings together the leading scholars in the field to reflect deeply on the current state and future of their discipline.

Further information is available from the book's web page here.

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Title: Patents, Human Rights and Access to Science

Author: Aurora Plomer

Publisher: Edward Elgar

The new millennium has been described as ‘the century of biology’, but scientific progress and access to medicines has been marred by global disputes over ownership of the science by universities and private companies. This book examines the challenges posed by the modern patent system to the right of everyone to access the benefits of science in international law.

Further information is available from the book's web page here.

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Title: Saisie-Contrefaçon - The French measure for gathering evidence of infringement of IP rights – Trilingual edition (German, English, French)

Directed by: Pierre Véron

Publisher: Dalloz

Specific to the intellectual property domain, the search and seizure procedure, saisie-contrefaçon, makes easy the search, descriptions and in some cases the actual seizure of allegedly infringing products. This powerful measure, specific to French law, is a priceless evidentiary tool for innovators and creators.

This reference book studies all aspects of saisie-contrefaçon in detail: the rights allowing it, its limitations, outcomes and causes for invalidation. Written by practicing lawyers specializing in intellectual property, it contains numerous references to case law, abundant in this domain where many court cases are won or lost depending on how the saisie-contrefaçon is handled.

Further information is available from the book's web page here.