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Intellectual Property is a major instrument of world and domestic trade and economic growth. This area of law and regulation has gained in importance with the development of the 'knowledge economy', as a large proportion of the world's wealth is in the form of intellectual capital rather than physical or material resources. In the domestic context, intellectual property and the application of their attached rights pervades and impacts in multitudinous ways our daily lives and activities This latest edition of Intellectual Property: Commentary and Materials deals with the essential aspects of the nature of the property rights involved in copyright, patents, designs, trademarks and geographical indications, protection for confidential information and passing off. It also includes an expanded chapter on indigenous cultural intellectual property (ICIP).