Trademark Law Research

This volume provides practical advice to non-specialist attorneys on successfully managing and enforcing trademarks and copyrights internationally. Import-and export-related enforcement issues are addressed.

Busy practitioners will benefit from this practical guide to international trademark treaties with specific instructions for how to use treaties to obtain and enforce trademark rights throughout the world.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest legal, economic, political and social research and advanced current thinking on the relationship between intellectual property and trade and development.

Volume 4 of this set covers international intellectual property law and policy

Also available online via Lexis Academic, Hein Online, and WestlawNext.

Includes a section on franchising and trademark licensing.

Drawing on cultural theory - which has shown that society is involved in a constant struggle about shaping the meaning of signs (including trademarks) - this highly original and provocative book contends that trademark law fails to sufficiently differentiate between commercial purpose and the social, political, or cultural meanings carried by one and the same sign.

This book critically reviews the recurrent debate on intellectual property law and policy in developing countries, identifying the still unresolved policy issues and proposing alternative approaches that resonate with the needs for transformation of the economic and social reality of developing countries.

Canadian Intellectual Property Law and Strategy provides a comprehensive overview of Canadian law relating to trademarks, copyright and industrial designs, along with strategic, practice-oriented commentary regarding how such laws can best be used for business advantage.

This book offers the essential information for understanding the Chinese legal regime for trademark registration and administration. It serves as a roadmap for conducting research in this subject area by providing the know-how on finding relevant statutes, regulations, case law, bibliographies, electronic resources, and other useful information.

This book describes both the nature and process of protecting appellations of source in Japan and provides normative commentary on this protection.