This book offers a critical examination of the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as an emancipatory international social contract on trade. The book suggests that the WTO is an international organization built and operating on member states' attribution of authority through consent with legislative, administrative, and adjudicative functions - three functions in one triune personality. With a solid constitutional continuity building on GATT experiences, the WTO has successfull...
The Psychology Behind Trademark Infringement and Counterfeiting
by J. L. Zaichkowsky
As those involved in commerce are aware, preventing competitors and others from imitating successful brands is a difficult and costly task. This book serves to inform the reader concerning complexities of the issues of brand imitation, integrating the disciplines of psychology, business, and law to the area of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. Principles and theories from psychology and how they are relevant to consumers' perceptions in the marketplace are used to explain why competito...
The Creative Artist's Legal Guide: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production
by Bill Seiter and Professor of Communications Ellen Seiter
The Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents
by Craig Fellenstein, Jaclyn Vassallo, and Rachel Ralston
Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small to medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, business-focused understanding of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, trade secrets, and the entire invention process. In this book, Craig Fellenstein teaches his own critical techniques that have helped him to have over 65 patent applications filed. Drawing on his expertise in mentoring invention and patent teams, Fellenstein introduces...
How to Register Your Simple Trademark Without a Lawyer: Everything You Need to Know Explained Easily (with Companion CD-ROM)
Intellectual Property Branding in the Developing World identifies success stories in the area of intellectual property (IP) branding for non-technological innovations throughout the developing world. The author examines success stories in the developing world, analysing whether the branding of non-technological innovations is a good strategic tool for countries in the developing world to use. This book will assist scholars and academics dealing with innovation, branding, and IP issues, providin...
Geographical Indications of Indian Handlooms
by Nidhi Buch and Hetvi Trivedi
1) The book provides an understanding of GI from legal and policy perspectives. 2) It focuses on the handloom industry in India. 3) The book will be of interest to departments of development studies, IPR studies, policy studies and South Asian studies across UK and USA.
2018 - 2020 Three Year Planner
by CC Weekly Planner and 2018 - 2020 Monthly Calendar Planner
Authenticity and Authentication of Heritage
Authenticity and Authentication of Heritage presents an assimilation of chapters that critically address some of the key emerging areas associated with authenticity. It presents a variety of inspiring pieces of work that range from host-guest authentication and intangible heritage to knowledge transfer processes, authenticating heritage in fairy-tale settings, authenticity and anxiety in the smell of death and life, understanding the boundaries of authenticity, nostalgia, sustainability, marketi...
International Edition (Basics of Licensing)
by Danny Simon and Gregory J Battersby
Trademarks and Unfair Competition (Aspen Casebook)
by Graeme B Dinwoodie and Mark D Janis