Textbooks, manuals and other publications

The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys contributes to, or publish themselves, several textbooks and manuals. Please see below for further details or e-mail the Institute, or print and return the CIPA publications order form.

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Practitioners Works (available from CIPA)

A Guide to the EPC 2000 - 
3rd edition (2009)
£30 non-members - £25 members
+PP for outside the UK
This convenient guide, written by Nicholas Fox and published by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, aims to help practitioners find their way around the law. It contains an extensively annotated and cross-referenced copy of the revised Convention and Implementing Regulations, as well as the Rules Relating to Fees, the Protocol on Jurisdiction and the London Agreement. Articles and their most relevant rules are printed together to enable them to be read in context. Practical commentaries highlight the major changes, illustrating how the articles and rules interact in practice.

Please click here to order your copy. For extracts from the book and further details, please click here.

New in the 2009 edition:

• Fully updated for the minor changes to EPO practice that came into effect on1 April 2009.
• New section: a thematic index of decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal.
  

Fundamentals of Patent Drafting (2006)
£25 +PP for outside the UK
Drafting patents is the fundamental skill of the patent attorney, which affects every aspect of the life of the granted patent throughout the world. This book will assist those studying for both the UK and the European examinations and will also be of use to all practitioners in reminding them of drafting for successful prosecution and enforcement. UK patent attorneys have long held a reputation for their skill in drafting patent specifications and this book is intended ensure that these skills continue to enthral our clients and employers. To order your copy please e-mail the Institute for further details, or print the order form available here. 

The Design Directive
The Design Directive will keep the profession gainfully employed for several decades. David Musker's book is for practitioners and students, and assists in identifying interesting, difficult, contentious or arguable points, and summarises the views of legislators and commentators. This book is now almost out of stock, to order a copy please email Iain Ross.

List of Members (2009/10)

The 2009/10 List of Members is available from CIPA. Each member or student is entitled to one free copy. Subsequent copies can be bought at £10 a copy for members and £50 for non members (plus postage for outside the UK - £3 Europe, £6 outside Europe). To order your copy e-mail Emily Boddy. Instead of using the paper copy, Members can click here to search the most up-to-date list online.

What Makes a Successful Innovation?

Students Works (available from CIPA)

Patents

Patents Training Manual
£75 +PP for outside the UK
The new edition of the UK Patents Training Manual is now available. As with the previous version, the manual provides a broad, practical perspective on areas that the trainee is likely to deal with. Re-written from scratch and fully updated, the patents training manual is an essential resource for patent attorneys in their first few years of practice. Extracts from the Patents Training Manual can be seen in the May, June and July 2008 Journals.

For more information and to order this book please email CIPA's Publiations Assistant; or complete and return the booking form.

Study Guide to the Patents Acts (2009) - This edition has now SOLD OUT. The 2010 edition will be avaliable to buy from the end of April 2010.
£30 non-members - £25 members
+PP for outside the UK
Doug Ealey’s Study Guide to the Patents Acts sets out to achieve the opposite of such books as Visser and Hoekstra. Rather than provide exhaustive commentary on patent law for reference during the open book EQEs, it instead simplifies the law and commentary as far as possible to provide a bare-bones reference that can be readily learnt by students taking the closed-book UK finals. In this 2009 edition, the law section has been updated again to reflect both the full JEB syllabus and recent changes in law, and has been complemented with new sections on revision and exam techniques for the P2 final exam. To order your copy complete and return the CIPA publications order form or email CIPA's Publiations Assistant.

Fundamentals of Patent Drafting (2006)
See above, under practioners works.

Advice for passing the European Qualifying Examination
By Derek Jackson, Paul Denerley and Nicholas Fox - £10 +PP for outside the UK
A study guide for both students and their tutors. It begins with a brief but very useful list of background reading and then takes each EQE paper in turn and analyses these in a concise but comprehensive plan of attack. All the well known dos and don’ts are there but these essential caveats are no mere repetition: they form the bedrock of the authors’ eminently practical approach to tackling the entire suite of papers. Candidates wanting to maximise their chances of success need to adopt these strong basic guidelines and they are all comprehensively covered here. The text is clear, readable, and above all practical in its approach.

This short but authoritative pamphlet is a valuable addition to CIPA’s publications list and every one of us could benefit from reading and reflecting on the sound pragmatic approach which it so clearly and positively sets out.

Trade Marks

UK Trade Marks Training Manual (2006)
£75 +PP for outside the UK
This manual is a distance-learning work on UK trade mark law and practice for students of CIPA and ITMA. Designed primarily for trainees and students new to the trade mark profession including those who have not previously studied law. This manual is designed to work hand-in-hand with trainees' practical experience and is accompanied by a guide to assist trainers to concentrate their efforts in the areas where book work alone is not enough. Click here for a ordering form.

Foundation Level Foreign Law: The Community Trade Marks Training Manual (2003) - £75 +PP for outside the UK
This manual is directed to the level of knowledge required by students studying for the 'Foundation-Level Foreign Law' examination. It is written to the level required by someone coming completely new to the profession. The content of the manual is defined by the syllabus of the 'T5' examination – that is, the foundation level paper in foreign law. Produced in conjunction with ITMA.

Foundation Level Foreign Law: The Madrid Agreement and Protocol Manual (2004) - £75 +PP for outside the UK
The manual includes modules on preparing international applications, formalities examination and publication, the handling of designations by the UK Patent Office and OHIM and other trade mark offices, central attack and conversion, and a comparison of the systems. Produced in conjunction with ITMA.

Foundation Level Foreign Law: The Foreign Law Trade Marks Training Manual (2007) - £75 +PP for outside the UK
This manual has been designed to give you a basic introduction to the law and practice relating to trade marks in commercially significant countries, and in particular, those areas where the law or practice of the law differ significantly from the UK.  Please click here for an ordering form.

Designs

Designs and Copyright Training Manual (2008) - £75 +PP for outside the UK
A manual designed to give a basic introduction to the law and practice relating to registered designs and unregistered design rights. At the time of writing, the most used form of design protection is the Community Registered Design, so the manual covers this in some detail. It also deals with registered designs in the UK, and more briefly with the International Registration system and unregistered design right. This manual also provides you with an introduction to literary and artistic copyright, mainly as it impacts on the work of patent and trade mark attorneys. Produced in conjunction with ITMA.

Foundation Level Registered Design Law and Practice Notes (2003) - £25.00
Updated by Edward Lyndon-Stanford and David Musker, revised and edited by David Musker. Since the first edition of this book was published, the law has changed significantly. Still based on Edward Lyndon-Stanford's lecture notes for CIPA students, this edition updates the book in line with the 2001 changes to the Act and Rules, and includes a new section on Community Designs as well more recent case law. A valuable supplement for practitioners as well as students.

To order

All of the above training manuals are available from the Institute. Please e-mail the Institute for further details, or print the order form available here.

Practitioners Works
(available from Sweet & Maxwell)  

CIPA Guide Online
Delivered through Westlaw UK Intellectual Property. For more details call 0800 028 2200 or visit http://www.westlaw.co.uk/.

CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts [The 'Black Book']
The standard text on UK patent law and practice for practising attorney. Published by Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on their website click here.

European Patents Handbook [The 'EPH']
A standard text for attorneys practising under the European Patent Convention (EPC), with an extensive compilation of cases decided before the European Patent Office. Published by Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on their website click here.

European Patents Sourcefinder
A guide to decided cases and other publications on the EPC. Published by Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on their website click here.

The Trade Marks Handbook
The standard practitioner's text on UK trade mark law and practice, also covering practice in the European Community Office at Alicante. Published in conjunction with the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, through Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on the Sweet & Maxwell website click here.

The Patent Co-operation Treaty Handbook
The standard practitioners' text for those practising under the Patent Co-operation Treaty. Published by Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on their website click here.

The Community Trade Mark Handbook
An authoritative guide to the Community Trade Mark - a comprehensive analysis in looseleaf format. Published in conjunction with the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, through Sweet & Maxwell. To see further details on the Sweet & Maxwell website click here.