This work forms part of the award winning In Principle Series. It has all the key features that students and academics alike have come to expect from the Lawbook Co. In Principle Series including flowcharts, concise presentation of the crucial legal principles, review questions, tutorial and analysis, and visual presentations of complex systems and concepts.

Intellectual Property: In Principle provides students with an easy to read text covering the fundamentals of each intellectual property system in the context of new technologies such as information technology and biotechnology. It also includes chapters dealing with the commercialisation of intellectual property, and intellectual property as it relates to indigenous intellectual and cultural property.

Intellectual Property: In Principle facilitates the teaching and learning of contemporary intellectual property concepts that focus on Australian intellectual property law against the backdrop of developments in international law. The text also covers comparative intellectual property law.