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protection of non-traditional trademarks : critical perspectives /

This volume offers a detailed analysis of the issues related to the protection of non-traditional marks. In recent years, the domain of trademark law and the scope of trademark protection has grown exponentially. Today, a wide variety of non-traditional marks, including colour, sound, smell, and sha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calboli,Irene,Ed
Other Authors: Calboli, Irene, Senftleben, M. R. F.
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK, OUP, 2018.
Edition:First Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Irene Calboli and Martin Senftleben
  • Making a large universe visually perceptible: the development of non-traditional trademarks in WIPO treaties / Denis Croze
  • Non-traditional trademarks: an empirical study / Mitchell Adams and Amanda Scardamaglia
  • Paying the price for admission: non-traditional marks across registration and enforcement / Dev S. Gangjee
  • Yellow dictionaries, red banking services, some candies, and a sitting bunny: protection of color and shape marks from a German and European perspective / Annette Kur
  • Non-traditional trademarks and the dilemma of aesthetic functionality / Justin Hughes
  • Should trademark law protect non-traditional trademarks? a look at how marketing practices try to capture essences / Devin Desai
  • Absolute bans on the registration of product shape marks: a breach of international law? / Ng-Loy Wee Loon
  • What should constitute infringement of a non-traditional mark? the role of "trademark use" / Michael Handler
  • Protecting non-traditional trademarks in China: new opportunities and challenges / Haochen Sun
  • The protection of (three-dimensional) shape trademarks and its implications for the protection of competition / Gustavo Ghidini
  • Non-traditional trademarks: the error costs of making and exception to the rule / Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.
  • Assessing the impact of registering non-traditional marks: a European Union competition law analysis / Lavinia Brancusi
  • The economics of management of non-traditional trademarks: why, how much, what, and who / Carolina Castaldi
  • Non-traditional trademarks in the pharmaceutical sector: non-traditional barriers to access to medicine / Arul George Scaria and Kavya Susan Mammen
  • Hands off "my" colors, patterns, and shapes! how non-traditional trademarks promote standardization and may negatively impact creativity and innovations / Irene Calboli
  • A clash of culture and commerce: non-traditional marks and the impediment of cyclic cultural innovation / Martin Senftleben
  • Non-traditional trademarks and inherently valuable expression / Lisa P. Ramsey
  • Non-traditional trademark protection as (non-traditional) means of cultural control / Katya Assaf-Zakharov.