A Short course in international intellectual property rights : protecting your brands, marks, copyrights, patents, designs, and related rights worldwide / Karla C. Shippey.

1. Intellectual property (IP) basics; 2. The role and value of IP in international commerce; 3. Issues affecting IP rights internationally; 4. Parties to IP rights, part I: owner, consumer, authorized user, licensee, attorney; 5. Ensuring the value of your IP rights: at creation; 6. Ensuring the value of your IP rights: protection after creation; 7. Parties to IP rights, part II: protection of the weak and strong; 8. Ensuring precise contractual protection of IP rights; 9. Parties to IP rights, part III: finalizing ownership and use rights; 10. Key issues related to IP rights internationally; 11. IP rights in multi-national forums; 12. Fundamentals in country legal systems: generalities; 13. Validity of IP rights locally: specifics; 14. Acquiring IP rights: letters of instruction; 15. Acquiring IP rights: joint collaboration agreement; 16. Acquiring IP rights: work made for hire agreement; 17. Protecting IP rights: nondisclosure agreements; 18. Protecting IP rights: cease and desist letter; 19. Protecting IP rights: settlement memorandum; 20. transferring IP rights: assignment contract; 21. Transferring IP rights: license agreement; 22. Transferring IP rights: deed of assignment or license; 23. Transferring IP rights: addendum to unrecorded assignment or license; 24. Glossary; 25. Resources.