Industrial & Intellectual Property Law: IALS Library Guides

Guide last updated by Balqees Khan, September 2025.

This guide aims to give a brief introduction to the Library's holdings on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law. Please consult Library Search for complete information on current titles and locations. If you require further assistance please contact us.

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This Subject Guide only lists a selection of Library resources on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law. To find additional resources you will need to use Library Search, which covers the complete holdings of the Library. It is possible to search for books, journals and series of law reports by author, title or keyword. It is also possible to search by article and individual chapter title for some material.

IALS Library is mainly open access and readers are able to browse the shelves in the main collection. There are two main exceptions to this:

• Older items (marked RES or Depository on the catalogue record) are kept in the closed basement.
• Key texts for LLM students are often kept in the Short Loan collection.

Please request these at the Library Enquiry Desk.

For more information on understanding the catalogue record and further guidance on the location of materials please refer to our guide Classmarks and the Location of Resources in the Library.

The Library classifies textbooks either by jurisdiction (GO13, GA2 etc.) or according to subject area, examples of which include Comparative Law (SB), Public International Law (SG) and Private International Law/ Conflict of Laws (SH). All classmark sections have a FOL section for oversize volumes, which is located on the same floor of the Library.

When you are using Library Search for books, please note that only the current edition is held on the open shelves or in the Short Loan collection. IALS has a rich collection of previous editions held in the closed basement and these will display a Depository number on the catalogue. Please request previous editions from the Library Enquiry Desk.

Comparative Industrial and Intellectual Property Law material is shelved at SB55
Common Law Material is shelved at SJ325
Private International Law Material is shelved at SH35
EU material is shelved at GO1.A1.D.2

The following list represents a selection of textbooks on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law. Please follow the links to Library Search for further information and location. Titles are available in both print and electronic formats, unless indicated otherwise on the list below.

Anderman, S, & Schmidt, H. EU competition law and intellectual property rights; the regulation of innovation. 2nd ed. 2011 OUP (print only)

Aplin, T. Copyright law in the digital society. 1st ed. 2005 Hart

Aplin, T. Intellectual property law: text, cases and materials. 4th ed. 2022 (print only)

Bainbridge D. Information technology and intellectual property law. 7th ed. 2019 Bloomsbury

Bainbridge, D. Intellectual property. 8th ed. 2010 Pearson Education Limited (print only)

Bently, L., et al. Intellectual property law. 6th ed. 2022 OUP (print only)

Bently, L., & Aplin, T. Global mandatory fair use: the nature and scope of the right to quote copyright works. 1st ed. 2020 CUP (online only)

Brown, A., et al. Contemporary intellectual property: law and policy. 5th ed. 2019 OUP (print only)

Calboli, I., & Ginsburg J (eds). Cambridge handbook of international and comparative trademark law. 1st ed. 2020 CUP (online only)

Christie, A (ed). Blackstone’s statutes on intellectual property. 16th ed. 2023 OUP (print only)

Contreras, J. Intellectual property licensing and transactions: theory and practice. 1st ed. 2022 CUP (online only)

Cornish, W. Cases and materials on intellectual property. 5th ed. 2006 Sweet & Maxwell (print only)

Copinger, W., et al (eds). Copinger and Skone James on copyright. 19th ed. 2025 Sweet & Maxwell

Dreyfuss, R., & Pila, J (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law. 1st ed. 2017 OUP (online only)

Gervais, D. The TRIPS agreement: drafting history and analysis. 5th ed. 2021 Sweet & Maxwell (print only)

Gibson, J. Intellectual property, medicine and health. 2nd ed. 2018 Routledge

Holyoak, J., & Torremans, P.  Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual property law. 9th ed. 2019 OUP (print only)

Hudson, E. Drafting copyright exceptions: from the law in books to the law in action. 1st ed. 2020 CUP (online only)

Llewelyn, D., & Aplin, T. Intellectual property: patents, copyright, trademarks & allied rights. 10th ed. 2023 Sweet & Maxwell

Maguire, R. Copyright and anonymity in the creative user-generated world. 1st ed. 2025 Hart (online only)

Maniatis, S., et al. Trade mark law in Europe: a practical jurisprudence. 3rd ed. 2016 OUP (print only)

Matthews, D., & Zech, H (eds). Research handbook on intellectual property and the life sciences. 1st ed. 2017 Elgar

Mellor, J., et al. Kerly's law of trade marks and trade names. 17th ed. 2024 Sweet & Maxwell

Morcom, C., et al. Morcom on trade marks. 6th ed. 2021 LexisNexis (print only)

Ricketson, S., & Ginsburg, J. International copyright and neighbouring rights: the Berne convention and beyond. 3rd ed. 2022 OUP

Rosati, E (ed). Routledge handbook of EU copyright law. 1st ed. 2021 Routledge

Sterling, J. Sterling on world copyright law. 6th ed. 2022 Sweet & Maxwell

Stokes, S. Art and copyright. 3rd ed. 2021 Hart

Stokes, S. Digital copyright law and practice. 5th ed. 2019 Bloomsbury

Sundara Rajan, M., & Mira, T. The moral rights of authors and artists from the birth of copyright to the age of artificial intelligence. 2nd ed. 2025 OUP

Torremans, P (ed). Intellectual property law and human rights. 4th ed. 2020 Wolters Kluwer

Wadlow, C. Wadlow on the law of passing-off. 6th ed. 2021 Sweet & Maxwell

Walter, M., & Van Lewinsky, S. European copyright law: a commentary. 1st ed. 2010 OUP (print only)

IALS Library holds a wide selection of current serial titles on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law from many different jurisdictions. These are located on all floors of the Library. Titles are available in both print and electronic formats, unless indicated otherwise on the list below. For more detailed help, please refer to the guide on Finding journal articles. The following titles focus particularly on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law but there may be relevant articles in less specialised journals.

European intellectual property review

Information & communications technology law

Intellectual property law bulletin (online only)

Intellectual property quarterly

International review of intellectual property and competition law (IIC)

Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

Journal of world intellectual property

Reports of patent design and trade mark cases

WIPO Magazine

If you are interested in legislation or cases concerning Industrial and Intellectual Property Law issues in specific countries you will need to consult the legislation or law reports for that jurisdiction.

Use Library Search to find the general classmark for the country you require. Consult consolidations of legislation, digests or indexes to trace particular acts or cases.

Academic users may also use databases like Lexis/Westlaw to find UK, US, EU or international decisions. For further information please refer to Law Databases or ask at the Library Enquiry Desk.

You may also find it useful to refer to our guides on finding Legislation and Cases or check to see if we have a Jurisdiction Research Guide for the country you are interested in.

Eagle-i is an internet portal maintained and updated by IALS library staff. It allows you to search for quality web resources on Intellectual Property Law.

A valuable free source is BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute which is based and maintained at IALS. It provides free access to full text UK judgments and legislation on a wide range of subjects including Intellectual Property Law and also links to other free World Law databases. Jurisdictions covered in these resources include Commonwealth countries eg. AustLII  (Australia) and CanLII (Canada), France, Germany, Italy, the USA and South Africa.

The following represent a sample of the available quality individual web resources on Intellectual Property Law:

Cambridge University. Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

European Patent Office

International Trademark Law  - The Madrid System  by Vicenç Feliú. Updated March/April 2021

Oxford University. Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre

WIPO Lex.  Full text access to IP legislation for jurisdictions which are WIPO members.