Trademark law and theory : a handbook of contemporary research / edited by Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dinwoodie, Graeme B.

Janis, Mark D.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Research handbooks in intellectual property.

Research handbooks in intellectual property

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trademarks--Law and legislation.

Trademarks.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (554 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organized around three areas of inquiry, this book offers a variety of methodological perspectives on trademark law. It surveys trademark law's international landscape, addressing indigenous cultural property, human rights issues, the free movement of goods, and the role of substantive harmonization.

Contents:

From communication to thing : historical aspects of the conceptualisation of trade marks as property / Lionel Bently

The semiotic account of trademark doctrine and trademark culture / Barton Beebe

A search-costs theory of limiting doctrines in trademark law / Stacey L. Dogan and Mark A. Lemley

Trade mark bureaucracies / Robert Burrell

The political economy of trademark dilution / Clarisa Long

Fundamental concerns in the harmonization of (European) trademark law / Annette Kur

Substantive trademark law harmonization : on the emerging coherence between the jurisprudence of the WTO Appellate body and the European Court of Justice / Gail E. Evans

The free movement (or not) of trademark protected goods in Europe / Thomas Hays

The trademark law provisions of bilateral free trade agreements Burton Ong

Reconciling trademark rights and expressive values : how to stop worrying and learn to love ambiguity / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss

Truth and advertising : the Lanham Act and commercial speech doctrine / Rebecca Tushnet

Restricting allusion to trade marks : a new justification / Michael Spence

Protecting the common : delineating a public domain in trademark law / Jennifer Davis

Tolerating confusion about confusion : trademark policies and fair use / Graeme W. Austin

Online word of mouth and its implications for trademark law / Eric Goldman

Trademarks and traditional knowledge and cultural intellectual property rights / Susy Frankel

Culture, traditional knowledge, and trademarks : a view from the south / Coenraad Visser

Of mutant copyrights, mangled trademarks, and Barbie's beneficence : the influence of copyright on trademark law / Jane C. Ginsburg

Signs, surfaces, shapes, and structures

the protection of product design under trade mark law / Alison Firth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-77952-0

9786611779528

1-84844-131-2

OCLC:

476155064