Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts
Historical-Comparative, Doctrinal, and Economic Perspectives

This book will be of interest for all jurists doing research and working practically in intellectual property law and international economic law. This title is available as Open Access.

Tim W. Dornis (Author)

9781107155060, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 February 2017

802 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.1 kg

'Tim W. Dornis' work is a landmark! It makes available a wealth of German and European sources to common lawyers and of US sources to civil lawyers. It may incite Europeans to rethink whether the emperor's new clothes (i.e. trademarks as IP rights under the country-of-protection principle) are really that stunning. Lastly - and certainly not least - it looks at whether trademark infringements on the internet should call for some international harmonization of the self-restraint requirement.' Jochen Glöckner, Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law

With the rise of internet marketing and e-commerce around the world, international and cross-border conflicts in trademark and unfair competition law have become increasingly important. In this groundbreaking work, Tim Dornis - who, in addition to his scholarly pursuits, has worked as an attorney, a public prosecutor, and a judge, giving him experience in both civil and common-law jurisdictions - presents the historical-comparative, doctrinal, and economic aspects of trademark and unfair competition conflicts law. The book should be read by any scholar or practitioner interested in the international aspects of intellectual property generally, and trademark and unfair competition law specifically. This title is available as Open Access.

Acknowledgments
Table of cases
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Civil-law history - Germany and Europe
2. Common-law history - United States
3. A ragged landscape of theories
4. Substantive policy - convergent foundations
5. International comity - a doctrine of self-restraint
6. Reconceptualization, reinterpretation, and typology
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], IT & Communications law [LNQ], Competition law / Antitrust law [LNCH], Commercial law [LNCB], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Transnational commercial law [LBDK], International economic & trade law [LBBM]