Dean & Dyer's Digest of Intellectual Property Law

Prof Owen Dean holds the degrees B.A (Law), LL.B and LL.D obtained from the University of Stellenbosch in, respectively, 1964, 1966 and 1989. Admitted to practice as an attorney in South Africa in 1974, he is also admitted as an attorney in Namibia and Botswana. Prof Dean is a previous Senior Partner, presently a consultant, of Spoor and Fisher, leading Intellectual Property Attorneys in South Africa. He served on the Government's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Law for twenty years and as Chairman of the Copyright Sub-Committee of that Committee and has served as a member of the international editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals Copyright World and Entertainment Law Review. He is a past president of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law and plays an active role as lawmaker in South Africa.

1. Introduction to Intellectual Property Law ; 2. Copyright ; 3. Trade Marks ; 4. Unlawful Competition ; 5. Counterfeit Goods ; 6. Patents ; 7. Plant Breeders' Rights ; 8. Designs ; 9. Traditional Knowledge ; 10. Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment ; 11. Commercialisation of Intellectual Property ; 12. Intellectual Property and the Constitution