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    Trade marks and brands : an interdisciplinary critique / edited by Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane C. Ginsburg.

    • Title:Trade marks and brands : an interdisciplinary critique / edited by Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane C. Ginsburg.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Bently, Lionel, 1964-
      Davis, Jennifer, Dr.
      Ginsburg, Jane C.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Trademarks--Law and legislation.
      Trademarks (International law)
      Brand name products--Law and legislation.
      Intellectual property (International law)
    • Description:xxxvi, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Cambridge intellectual property and information law.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-422) and index.
    • ISBN:0521889650 (cloth)
      9780521889650 (cloth)
    • Contents:Pt. I. Legal and economic history
      1. making of modern trade mark law : the construction of the legal concept of trade mark (1860-1880) / Lionel Bently
      2. making of modern trade mark law : the UK, 1860-1914 : a business history perspective / David M. Higgins
      Pt. II. Current positive law in the EU and the USA
      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 US perspective / Jane C. Ginsburg
      Pt. 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 trademark law / Graeme B. Dinwoodie
      Pt. IV. Marketing
      7. Brand culture : trade marks, marketing and consumption / Jonathan E. Schroeder
      8. 'Brand culture : trade marks, marketing and consumption' - responding legally to Professor Schroeder's paper / David Vaver
      Pt. V. Sociology
      9. Trade mark style as a way of fixing things / Celia Lury
      10. irrational lightness of trade marks : a legal perspective / Catherine W. Ng
      Pt. VI. Law and economics
      11. law-and-economics perspective on trade marks / Andrew Griffiths
      12. economic rationale of trade marks : an economist's critique / Jonathan Aldred
      Pt. VII. Philosophy
      13. Trade marks as property : a philosophical perspective / Dominic Scott, Alex Oliver and Miguel Ley-Pineda
      14. alternative approach to dilution protection : a response to Scott / Oliver and Ley-Pineda and Michael Spence
      Pt. VIII. Anthropology
      15. anthropological approach to transactions involving names and marks, drawing on Melanesia / James Leach
      16. Traversing the cultures of trade marks : observations on the anthropological approach of James Leach / Megan Richardson
      Pt. IX. Geography
      17. Geographical indications : not all 'champagne and roses' / Bronwyn Parry
      18. (Re)locating Geographical indications : a response to Bronwyn Parry / Dev Gangjee.
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