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2014 Intellectual Property Statutory Supplement. This book contains the full text of the U.S.Trademark (Lanham), Copyright, and Patent Acts and selected International Treaties. It is intended for use with our casebook, Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society, by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, but it may also be used as a low cost general statutory supplement or educational resource. The book is an open coursebook available under a Creative Commons license. A free downloadable version is available at the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain website. James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and the former Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons. Jennifer Jenkins is Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. The editors wish to thank Mr. Balfour Smith, the Center's coordinator, who ran every stage of the book's creation, from copy-editing to cover design. CONTENTS Introduction Comparative Chart of Intellectual Property Rights Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) (as amended) Copyright Act of 1976 (as amended) Patent Act of 1952 (as amended, with annotations indicating the provisions applicable pre and post America Invents Act) Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works WIPO Copyright Treaty Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

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James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and the former Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons. His other books include The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Jennifer Jenkins is Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Her recent articles include In Ambiguous Battle: The Promise (and Pathos) of Public Domain Day, and Last Sale? Libraries' Rights in the Digital Age.

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