Customer Reviews

Intellectual Property: The Law of Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Secrets for the Paralegal

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

OK, it covers the basics in a fairly easy-to-read format and moves right along. It is a well-designed, reader-friendly book, but a bit repetitive. The same statements appear in the intro, in the middle, and in the end summary of each chapter.

I take off one star simply for cost. No way is this intro-level material worth over 100 bucks. This is a $20 book in gold plating.

Another star off for quite a number of spelling errors and other typos and goofs (repeated sentence/para fragment, etc.) that should have been caught in proofreading. Hard to believe these are still being carried along in the THIRD EDITION. These little glitches don't interfere with the usefulness of the book, but given the price, they owe us a PERFECTLY PROOFED text. Everybody else gets it right--why can't this team? And, a working paralegal who made these types of errors could be fired. It's ironic and silly for the book to contain such goofs.

I was assigned this book in my introductory Intellectual Property class during my paralegal curriculum, and it provided me with a very thorough grounding.

Most intellectual property law books are written for lawyers, so it was helpful to have a book designed for paralegals.

I have recommended it to the Association for Intellectual Property Paralegals (AOIPP), and it is listed on their "IP Books" page at: http://aoipp.org/ip-books/

I would recommend this book as the introductory text for a paralegal who is completely new to IP law, and Richard Stim's "Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights" as a more advanced text for paralegals. I would not have understood many sections of the Stim text without having read the Bouchoux text first.

I got this book when I first started working as a paralegal for a patent attorney. It gave me a great understanding of Intellectual Property. Great to learn the basics, of course there was more to learn on the job.

This book was required for my Masters studies at GWU. I'm only through the first few chapters, but it is very well written. I unfamilar with IP law, other than knowing it covers trademarks and copyrights. So far, this book is explaining IP law quite well. Just hope I make an "A" in the class.

I was very happy with the condition of my book. It was used, but it looked new. This is my second time ordering through Amazon Warehouse. The first time I was very pleased with my purchase, and this being my second time, I am very pleased with my purchase. I would highly recommend ordering through Amazon Warehouse. I will continue ordering all my textbooks from them.

Again I paid a good amount of money for a book with someone's highlight marks and notes on every page. This book was also listed in better condition then I feel it should have been listed as.

I took an Intellectual Property course for my Paralegal Certificate, and this was the required text. At first, I felt I was a little in over my head with the content, but I found it really interesting, and would love to someday get into IP law. Some of the cases are really interesting, and some amusing (Pepsico case!). I pulled the entire text of some cases from West to read them for a better understanding. Even if your goal is not IP law, this was an interesting book, and the organization was good.

Horrible editing, confusing and disjointed writing, very little information that could not be found on a half-decent Wikipedia page or even from the USPTO.

This was the second quarter my department used this text for IP classes.

The department is already looking for a replacement.

Buy this book used. You won't want to keep it.

The product was recieved in good time. There were marks inside the text, however. The book was sold for more than it was worth, imo. Thanks.

the book arrived in the condition that it was advertised to be in and it arrived just in time for classes