Trade Marks and Brands

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-88965-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 911 g

Reihe: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law

Recent developments in trade marks law have called into question a variety of basic features, as well as bolder extensions, of legal protection. Other disciplines can help us think about fundamental issues such as: What is a trade mark? What does it do? What should be the scope of its protection? This volume assembles essays examining trade marks and brands from a multiplicity of fields: from business history, marketing, linguistics, legal history, philosophy, sociology and geography. Each chapter pairs lawyers' and non-lawyers' perspectives, so that each commentator addresses and critiques his or her counterpart's analysis. The perspectives of non-legal fields are intended to enrich legal academics' and practitioners' reflections about trade marks, and to expose lawyers, judges and policy-makers to ideas, concepts and methods that could prove to be of particular importance in the development of positive law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bently, Lionel

Davis, Jennifer

Ginsburg, Jane C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationaler Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Medien-, IT- und Urheberrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäischer Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Medien-, IT- und Urheberrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Legal and Economic History: 1. The Making of Modern Trade Mark Law: The Construction of the Legal Concept of Trade Mark (1860-1980) Lionel Bently; 2. The Making of Modern Trade Mark Law: The U.K., 1860-1914. A Business History Perspective David Higgins; Part II. Current Positive Law in the E.U. and the U.S.: 3. Between a Sign and a Brand: Mapping the Boundaries of a Registered Trade Mark in European Union Trade Mark Law Jennifer Davis; 4. "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Hea[r] Me" (and maybe smell and taste me too): I Am a Trademark - A U.S. Perspective Jane C. Ginsburg; Part III. Linguistics: 5. 'How Can I Tell the Trade Mark on a Piece of Gingerbread from All the Other Marks on It?' Naming and Meaning in Verbal Trade Mark Signs Alan Durant; 6. What Linguistics Can Do For Trade Mark Law Graeme Dinwoodie; Part IV. Marketing: 7. Brand Culture: Trade Marks, Marketing and Consumption Jonathan Schroeder; 8. Images in Brand Culture: Responding Legally to Professor Schroeder's Paper David Vaver; Part V. Sociology: 9. Trade Mark Style as a Way of Fixing Things Celia Lury; 10. The Irrational Lightness of Trade Marks: a Legal Perspective Catherine Ng; Part VI. Law and Economics: 11. A Law and Economics Perspective on Trade Marks Andrew Griffiths; 12. The Economic Rationale of Trademarks: An Economist's Critique Jonathan Aldred; Part VII. Philosophy: 13. Trade Marks as Property: A Philosophical Perspective Dominic Scott, Alex Oliver and Miguel Ley Pineda; 14. An Alternative Approach to Dilution Protection: A Response to Scott, Oliver and Ley Pineda Michel Spence; Part VIII. Anthropology: 15. An Anthropological Approach to Transactions Involving Names and Marks, Drawing on Melanesia James Leach; 16. Traversing the Cultures of Trade Mark Sphere: Observations on the Anthropological Approach of James Leach Megan Richardson; Part IX. Geography: 17. Geographical Indications: Not All Champagne and Roses Bronwyn Parry; 18. (Re)Locating Geographical Indications: A Response to Bronwyn Parry Dev Gangjee.

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Jennifer
Jennifer Davis is Newton Trust Lecturer and College Lecturer at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Ginsburg, Jane C.
Jane C. Ginsburg is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts.

Bently, Lionel
Lionel Bently is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.