This Fifth Edition of Bouchoux’ comprehensive, reader-friendly text helps aspiring and practicing paralegals master the complexities of modern intellectual property law, including registration procedures, duration of rights, and protection from infringement. Updated to address current trends and developments, the new edition covers cutting-edge issues such as technological innovations, intellectual property in the digital age, the role of the Internet, and evolving business law. Sample agreements, forms, task checklists, realistic case studies with related activities, excerpts of real cases, and a new “Putting It into Words” feature help students master key concepts and procedures.

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
1. Introduction to Intellectual Property Law.
PART II: THE LAW OF TRADEMARKS.
2. Foundations of Trademark Law.
3. Trademark Selection and Searching.
4. The Trademark Registration Process.
5. Post-Registration Procedures, Trademark Maintenance, and Transfer of Rights to Marks.
6. Inter Partes Proceedings, Infringement, and Dilution.
7. New Developments in Trademark Law.
8. International Trademark Law.
PART III: THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.
9. Foundations of Copyright Law.
10. The Subject Matter of Copyright.
11. The Rights Afforded by Copyright Law.
12. Copyright Ownership, Transfers, and Duration.
13. Copyright Registration, Searching, and Notice of Copyright.
14. Copyright Infringement.
15. New Developments in Copyright Law and the Semi-Conductor Chip Protection Act.
16. International Copyright Law.
PART IV: THE LAW OF PATENTS.
17. Foundations of Patent Law.
18. Patent Searches and Applications.
19. Patent Ownership and Transfer.
20. Patent Infringement.
21. New Developments and International Patent Law.
PART V: THE LAW OF TRADE SECRETS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION.
22. Trade Secrets Law.
23. Unfair Competition.
24. Intellectual Property Audits and Due Diligence Reviews.
APPENDICES (ONLINE ONLY).
Appendix A. Table of Treaties.
Appendix B. State Trademark Registration Provision.
Appendix C. Resources.
Appendix D. Forms Appendix.
Appendix E. Selected Statutes.
Appendix F. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act: Summary and Discussion.

This Fifth Edition of Bouchoux’ comprehensive, reader-friendly text helps aspiring and practicing paralegals master the complexities of modern intellectual property law, including registration procedures, duration of rights, and protection from infringement. Updated to address current trends and developments, the new edition covers cutting-edge issues such as technological innovations, intellectual property in the digital age, the role of the Internet, and evolving business law. Sample agreements, forms, task checklists, realistic case studies with related activities, excerpts of real cases, and a new “Putting It into Words” feature help students master key concepts and procedures. New coverage of cutting-edge trademark issues, such as trademark bullying and the register ability of hashtags, expand student understanding. New topics include the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases; the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (including recent cases on the protections and liability of Internet service providers, such as YouTube); the copyright ability of tattoos, social media postings, apps, and the famous "monkey selfies" case; the Copyright Office's Fair Use Index; and the top ten copyright infringement issues for students. An expanded discussion explores "white hat" hacking and whether sampling, mashups, and looping of music constitute copyright infringement. The recent change from the U.S. Patent Classification System to the Cooperative Patent Classification System is included. Updated coverage of software patentability, proposals for patent reform to curb infringement actions brought by "trolls," and defensive patenting is included. Expanded emphasis on challenges to patents brought under the America Invents Act prepares students for today's legal environment. Coverage of cutting-edge issues includes the patentability of human genes, crowdsourcing of prior art, and whether 3-D printing infringes patents. Insightful coverage of the new Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, the most significant change to trade secrets law in a generation, brings the book completely up-to-date. New Cases in the News include In re Tam (holding that the Trademark Act's prohibition against disparaging marks violates the First Amendment); Authors Guild v. Google (allowing Google's book scanning project as a fair use of copyrighted works); Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (holding that the laches defense cannot be used in copyright infringement cases); Myriad Genetics (holding that naturally occurring DNA segments are not patentable); Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International (the critical 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that tightened the ability of inventors to obtain software patents).