The Trademark Paradox: Trademarks and Their Conflicting Legal and Commercial Boundaries

by Catherine Manley

Overview

Trademark laws reduce customer confusion, prevent unfairness, and make communication between seller and buyer simple. Expanding legal protection coupled with aggressive bullying have restricted competition. Laws have failed to balance private interests (investments in business goodwill) with public interests (robust competition without barriers).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631656433
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	02/25/2015
Series:	Schriften zum Medien-, Urheber- und Wirtschaftsrecht , #20
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Catherine M. Manley is qualified both as a U.S. attorney (California) and as a solicitor (England and Wales). She obtained her B.A. from Yale University, her J.D. from Stanford University, and her LL.M. from Philipps-Universität Marburg, and was a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. She has practiced in Silicon Valley, London, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Brussels.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Trademark Paradox – Trademarks and their conflicting legal and commercial boundaries – Trademark bullies – Expanding legal rights – Private interests in investments in business goodwill – Public interests in robust market competition without barriers – Imbalance and conflicting interests.

Preface

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