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A User's Guide to Trade Marks and Passing Off, 4th edition focuses on the current law relating to the protection of registered trademarks and certain related rights including registered trade marks, well-known trade marks, certification marks, collective marks, protested geographical origin indicators, international conventions, and Passing off. There is clear explanation of the underlying principles and concepts with a breakdown of procedural matters, thereby helping to tie the different areas together. Includes the following case law: Illustrative cases such as Lush, Scrabble, Starbucks, Glee Club and Jack Wills; Cadbury and what it means for registering colours as trade marks; How to tackle survey evidence after Interflora; Greek yoghurt continuing the Vodkat line of passing-off cases; Specsavers - Europe's view on the effect of using elements not included in a trade mark registration. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. What is a trade mark? 3. Other kinds of mark; 4. Absolute grounds for refusal; 5. Relative grounds for refusal of registration; 6. Classification; 7. UK procedure for the registration of a trade mark; 8. Application procedure before the OHIM; 9. International conventions; 10. Representation; 11. Invalidity; 12. Revocation; 13. Ownership of and dealings with trade marks; 14. Infringement; 15. Defences, disclaimers and limitation; 16. Comparative and misleading advertising; 17. Remedies; 18. Groundless threats; 19. Criminal offences; 20. Passing off.
Summary: The fifth edition of this seminal work offers a fully revised analysis of the law of trade marks and passing off in Australia. Necessarily the text synthesises and explores the significant changes in trade mark law in the years since the last book edition, in the context of both domestic and international developments. It also explores developments in the law of passing off and its legislative equivalents.
Changes to this edition of 'The Law of Passing-off' include the extension of coverage of injurious falsehood, as well as of aspects of international law relevant to unfair competition.
The law of passing off protects traders from a form of misrepresentation that harms their goodwill, and consumers from the market distortion that may result. This carefully-crafted work seeks to delineate two intertwined aspects of goodwill: substantive and structural goodwill. It argues that the law of passing off should focus on protecting structural goodwill, and that this in turn allows traders’ authentic voices to help shape the substantive goodwill to attract custom for them in the marketplace.
A comprehensive overview of intellectual property law, this handbook will be a vital read for all invested in the field of IP law. Topics include the foundations of IP law; its emergence and development in various jurisdictions; its rules and principles; and current issues arising from the existence and operation of IP law in a political economy.
Focuses on the current law relating to the protection of registered trademarks and certain related rights. This includes registered trade marks, well-known trade marks, certification marks, collective marks, protested geographical origin indicators, international conventions, and passing off. There is clear explanation of the underlying principles and concepts with a breakdown of procedural matters, thereby helping to tie the different areas together. Individual topics covered include: Kit-Kat - when can 3D shape marks benefit from 'acquired distinctiveness'? Whether colours may form part of 3D shape marks - Louboutin Infringement by 'wrong way round' confusion Limitations on the own-name defence Calculation of damages, and the availability of blocking injunctions
Who controls how one’s identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity—a little-known law, often wielded by celebrities—to answer that question, not just for the famous but for everyone. In challenging the conventional story of the right of publicity’s emergence, development, and justifications, Rothman shows how it transformed people into intellectual property, leading to a bizarre world in which you can lose ownership of your own identity. This shift and the right’s subsequent expansion undermine individual liberty and privacy, restrict free speech, and suppress artistic works. The Right of Publicity traces the right’s origins back to the emergence of the right of privacy in the late 1800s. The central impetus for the adoption of privacy laws was to protect people from “wrongful publicity.” This privacy-based protection was not limited to anonymous private citizens but applied to famous actors, athletes, and politicians. Beginning in the 1950s, the right transformed into a fully transferable intellectual property right, generating a host of legal disputes, from control of dead celebrities like Prince, to the use of student athletes’ images by the NCAA, to lawsuits by users of Facebook and victims of revenge porn. The right of publicity has lost its way. Rothman proposes returning the right to its origins and in the process reclaiming privacy for a public world.