This comprehensive two-volume collection of leading articles in trademark and unfair competition law spans almost a century and three continents, bringing together the most influential and significant scholarly work in this exciting field. These essential volumes, with a new and original introduction by two leading contemporary writers, are organised in a way that highlights essential concepts and will be invaluable both for those taking their first steps in the area and for those seeking to re-acquaint themselves with the classics.
Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction A Century of Trademark Law Scholarship Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis PART I HISTORY 1. Frank I. Schechter (1925), 'The Genesis of the Modern Law in Relating to Trade-Marks' 2. Keith M. Stolte (1998), 'How Early did Anglo-American Trademark Law Begin? An Answer to Schechter's Conundrum' PART II JUSTIFICATIONS 3. Sypros M. Maniatis (2002), 'Trade Mark Rights - A Justification Based on Property' 4. Lionel Bently (2008), 'From Communication to Thing: Historical Aspects of the Conceptualization of Trademarks as Property' 5. Beverly W. Pattishall (1952), 'Trade-Marks and the Monopoly Phobia' 6. Daniel M. McClure (1979) 'Trademarks and Unfair Competition: A Critical History of Legal Thought' 7. William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (1987), 'Trademark Law: An Economic Perspective' 8. Michael Spence (2005), 'The Mark as Expression/The Mark as Property' PART III PASSING OFF 9. W.L. Morison (1956), 'Unfair Competition and "Passing Off": The Flexibility of a Formula' 10. Suman Naresh (1986), 'Passing-off, Goodwill and False Advertising: New Wine in Old Bottles' 11. Hazel Carty (1996), 'Dilution and Passing Off: Cause for Concern' PART IV UNFAIR COMPETITION 12. Rudolf Callman (1940), 'What is Unfair Competition?' 13. Walter J. Derenberg (1957), 'Federal Unfair Competition Law at the End of the First Decade of the Lanham Act: Prologue or Epilogue?' 14. Andrew Terry (1988), 'Unfair Competition and the Misappropriation of a Competitor's Trade Values' 15. Jennifer Davis (2010), 'Why the United Kingdom Should Have a Law Against Misappropriation' PART V FUNCTIONS OF MARKS 16. Ralph S. Brown, Jr. (1948), 'Advertising and the Public Interest: Legal Protection of Trade Symbols' 17. Jessica Litman (1999), 'Breakfast with Batman: The Public Interests in the Advertising Age' 18. Jerre B. Swann, Sr., David A. Aaker and Matt Reback (2001), 'Trademarks and Marketing' 19. William Cornish (2004), Extract from 'Functions: What Should be Protected and Why', in Intellectual Property: Omnipresent, Distracting, Irrelevant?' PART VI THE CONSUMER AND OTHER METRICS 20. Barton Beebe (2005), 'Search and Persuasion in Trademark Law' 21. Jennifer Davis (2005), 'Locating the Average Consumer: His Judicial Origins, Intellectual Influences and Current Role in European Trade Mark Law' 22. Robert G. Bone (2004), 'Enforcement Costs and Trademark Puzzles' Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction to both volumes by the editors appear in volume I A Century of Trademark Law Scholarship PART I REGISTRATION STATUTES 1. Stephen L. Carter (1990), 'The Trouble with Trademark' 2. Peter Jaffey (1997), 'The New European Trade Marks Regime' PART II SUBJECT MATTER AND VALIDITY 3. Milton Handler and Charles Pickett (1930), 'Trade-Marks and Trade Names - An Analysis and Synthesis' 4. Robert Burrell and Michael Handler (2003), 'Making Sense of Trade Mark Law' 5. Michael Handler (2005), 'The Distinctive Problem of European Trade Mark Law' PART III FUNCTIONALITY 6. Graeme B. Dinwoodie (1999), 'The Death of Ontology: A Teleological Approach to Trademark Law' 7. Jessica Litman (1982), 'Notes, The Problem of Functional Features: Trade Dress Infringement Under Section 43 (a) of the Lanham Act' 8. Annette Kur (2009), 'Too Pretty to Protect? Trade Mark Law and the Enigma of Aesthetic Functionality' PART IV CALIBRATING TRADEMARK INFRINGMENT A. By Types of Use 9. Helen Norman (2004), 'Time to Blow the Whistle on Trade Mark Use?' 10. Andrew Griffiths (2007), 'The Trade Mark Monopoly: An Analysis of the Core Zone of Absolute Protection Under Art. 5.1 (a)' B. By Types of Related Goods 11. Rudolf Callman (1947), 'Unfair Competition Without Competition? The Importance of the Property Concept in the Law of Trade Marks' 12. Jeremy Phillips and Allison Coleman (1985), 'Passing off and the "Common Field of Activity"' C. By Types of Confusion 13. Julius R. Lunsford, Jr., (1953), 'The Lanham Trade Mark Ac