📘 Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights – Second Edition
✒️ Authors: Neil Wilkof, Shamnad Basheer & Irene Calboli
📕 Hardback | ISBN: 9780198922087
🏛️ Publisher: Oxford University Press

Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights – Second Edition delivers a comprehensive, comparative, and practice-oriented analysis of how different forms of intellectual property (IP) intersect and influence one another across key jurisdictions. Written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners, this edition provides fresh insights and practical strategies for navigating the complex overlaps in IP law across the UK, EU, US, and beyond.

🔍 Key Features:

• ⚖️ Comprehensive Comparative Analysis – examines the intersections and tensions among patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, privacy rights, and more in UK, EU, and US law.

• 🌍 Global Perspective – includes a comparison table summarising legal positions in 17 countries, offering a quick-reference international view.

• 🧩 Practical Scenarios & Case Studies – uses real-world examples to illustrate how overlapping rights arise and are resolved in practice.

• 🆕 New & Updated Chapters – covers privacy vs. copyright law, privacy and secrecy, trademarks with certification & collective marks, and fully revised chapters on patent–copyright overlaps, right of publicity vs. trademarks, and trademarks vs. passing off.

• 🎓 Renowned Authorship – contributions by:

  • Neil Wilkof, veteran lecturer in IP law across the US, Israel, and India

  • Shamnad Basheer, pioneering IP scholar and co-editor of the first edition

  • Irene Calboli, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, and Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford University

🎯 Recommended For:

• Intellectual property lawyers, patent & trademark attorneys

• Corporate counsel and in-house legal teams handling multi-jurisdictional IP portfolios

• Judges and policymakers involved in IP dispute resolution

• Academics and researchers studying comparative and international IP law

• Libraries & institutions curating authoritative works in intellectual property law

📌 Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights – Second Edition is a definitive and globally informed reference, combining doctrinal depth with practical guidance to help professionals and scholars understand, manage, and strategically leverage overlapping IP protections in an increasingly complex legal landscape.