Barrett (law, U. of California, Hastings) assists law students who are taking intellectual property survey courses, and those in courses on patents, copyrights, and trademarks and unfair competition, review the key substantive points of patent law, copyright law, trademarks, and unfair competition, as well as state trade secret, publicity, and undeveloped idea laws. She summarizes the black-letter law in outline form, with examples, and includes exam tips, chapter questions and answers, and essay questions and answers. This edition has a rewritten chapter on patents to reflect changes brought by the Smith-Leahy America Invents Act; updates on new US Supreme Court decisions, including cases on patentable subject matter regarding medical diagnostic methods and natural phenomena and business methods and abstract ideas, "willful blindness" in patent infringement, and the constitutionality of foreign copyright restoration; a reworked section on federal dilution claims that discusses three new Circuit Court of Appeals decisions construing the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006; updates to reflect key Circuit Court of Appeals decisions, including those on mental processes as patentable subject matter, narrowing inequitable conduct defense, and limiting scope of permissible "hot news misappropriation" claims; and expanded discussion of implied copyright licenses, deceptive marks and marks that "falsely suggest a connection," extraterritorial trademark infringement claims, and judicial review after resort to a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy cybersquatting proceeding. Aspen Publishers is now Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)