• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Copyright


• Chapter 3: Patent


• Chapter 4: Trademark


• Chapter 5: Trade Secrets


• Chapter 6: Related Rights

Dan Hunter is Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is an expert in internet law, intellectual property, and artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University on the nature of legal reasoning, computer science and law degrees from Monash University (Australia) and a Master in Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Professor Hunter held a Chair in Law at the University of Melbourne and was a tenured faculty member at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2000, and still teaches as an adjunct faculty member. Prior to joining Wharton he taught on the law faculty at Cambridge University. He regularly publishes on issues dealing with the intersection of computers and law, including papers dealing with the regulation of virtual worlds, the use of artificial intelligence in law, and high technology aspects of intellectual property.
Dennis Patterson is Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy at the European University Institute, Firenze

In this book, prominent intellectual property scholar Daniel Hunter provides a precise, engaging overview and careful analysis of intellectual property and its history. He first focuses on the central areas of intellectual property law, including copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secrets. He then explores the politics, economics, psychology and rhetoric of possession and control that influence and interact with this area oflaw.