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This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address business needs when registering trade marks consisting of product characteristics. It comprehensively examines the absolute grounds for a refusal of registration of functional signs under EUTM. Learn More

Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law celebrates the 20th anniversary of the award-winning intellectual property blog, The IPKat. Bringing together eminent practitioners, academics, and former contributors, this book reflects on the most important developments in intellectual property law, policy, and practice. Learn More

Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law celebrates the 20th anniversary of the award-winning intellectual property blog, The IPKat. Bringing together eminent practitioners, academics, and former contributors, this book reflects on the most important developments in intellectual property law, policy, and practice. Learn More

Two of the objectives of the Chinese Copyright Law are to protect the copyright of authors to their literary and artistic works and encourage the creation and dissemination of works. Learn More

Exploring the debate over the benefits of legal protection for fashion design, this book focuses on how a combination of minimal legal protections for design, evolving social norms, digital technology, and market forces can promote innovation and creativity in a business known for its fast-paced remixing and borrowing. Learn More

Exploring the debate over the benefits of legal protection for fashion design, this book focuses on how a combination of minimal legal protections for design, evolving social norms, digital technology, and market forces can promote innovation and creativity in a business known for its fast-paced remixing and borrowing. Learn More

First published in 1992, Authorship and Copyright traces the history of constructions of authorship as a legal reality. Learn More

This book theorizes how the law should deal with disruptive innovations in general, going beyond a discussion of the regulation of specific innovations to develop a framework for how law makers should deal with disruptive innovations when faced by one. Learn More

Ideas are the fuel of industry and the entertainment business. Likewise, manufacturers receive suggestions for new products or improvements to existing products, and retailers frequently receive ideas for new marketing campaigns. Learn More

This book examines the relationship between copyright law, translation and access to knowledge. Taking Sri Lanka as a case study in comparison with India and Bangladesh, it identifies factors that have contributed to the unfavourable relationship between copyright law and timely and affordable translation. Learn More

The Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural (1991) required that databases must have a minimal degree of creativity for copyright. The book gives an account of that decision's conceptual structure, focusing on its full delineation of the opposite to creativity. Learn More

Building on its onto-epistemological critiques on the stakeholder, force, and mechanism of copyright evolution, the Book argues that, not only copyright, but also law in general, and justice too, need to be onto-epistemologically balanced, as this is categorically imperative for being, the fundamental law of nature. Learn More