Remove the tedious searching through scattered titles and codes to locate the intellectual property statutes you need. In this one portable volume, you can easily find complete and fully updated text provisions for all relevant California and federal intellectual property statutes, along with expert commentary. The text of the California statutes is current through ch. 876 of the second year of the 2011–2012 Regular Session, 2012 Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 2, and all propositions approved by the electorate at the June 5, 2012 Presidential Primary Election and the November 6, 2012 Presidential General Election. This product has also been revised to include Federal Statutes current through P.L. 112-207 (December 7, 2012), with prospective amendments from P.L. 112-211 (effective December 18, 2013). As of this 2013 Edition, this important product has been expanded to include for practitioners the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011.

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