Hein: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY A GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Provides the first directory specifically for IP acronyms -a groundbreaking resource that belongs in academic libraries around the globe. In the legal field IP has expanded beyond patent, trademark and copyright to include industrial design, intellectual capital and asset management, trade secrets, rights of publicity, cultural and moral rights, traditional knowledge, unfair competition, semi conductor acts, biodiversity law and more. Part I of the Directory enables users to search for the meaning of abbreviations and acronyms and Part II allows them to locate the abbreviations for titles, terms and names used in legal literature. TheDirectory includes abbreviations established by well-recognized authorities as well as abbreviations otherwise devised by print and Web authors in their efforts to shorten legal references and citations.