This course has been designed to give postgraduates from a non-legal background an overview of intellectual property, which is becoming one of the most important areas of commercial legal practice, and is vital to the marketing, advertising, entertainment and communications industries. This course aims to introduce students to each of the general law and statutory protections outlined below. There are increasing interrelationships and overlaps between these protections, particularly because of the Trade Practices Act. For each of the heads of protection, the course gives consideration to the subject matter which is protected, the pre-conditions for protection, and the nature of infringement. Other matters such as remedies, competition law and international protection are dealt with briefly but cannot be examined in detail in an intensive course. However, as far as possible in an intensive overview, this course focuses on the commercial and business aspects of intellectual property.