Trademarks and Unfair Competition Deskbook
- ISBN-10
- 142248906X
- ISBN-13
- 9781422489062
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- LexisNexis
- Authors
- David Craig Hilliard, Janet A. Marvel, Joseph Nye Welch
Description
Expertly advise and represent your clients on evolving trademark issues with the Trademarks and Unfair Competition Deskbook. This guide is a unique and easy-to-use reference tool offering an up- to-date synthesis of current and developing trademark and unfair competition law in one concise volume. Trademarks and Unfair Competition Deskbook directs you through the latest decisions and legislative enactments. E-commerce and the Internet have sparked phenomenal growth in recent years in the scope and significance of trademark and unfair competition law. New challenges arise daily as the law responds to new technologies and more sophisticated forms of communication. Law schools, law firms, corporate legal departments, and entrepreneurs across the United States and abroad have expanded their intellectual property resources. This growth has resulted in intense intellectual ferment within academia, the courts and the practicing bar. Like patent and copyright law, trademark and unfair competition law are in a state of rapid evolution. Many hitherto unquestioned principles are now being rethought, foundational changes in the policy rationales and the doctrinal and constitutional dimensions of this ancient body of law are being considered and implemented, false leads are being weeded out (or, sometimes, newly introduced). Ecommerce and technological developments have raised new questions about the relationship of trademark law to other bodies of intellectual property law. The U.S. Supreme Court's selection of cases to be heard reflects these trends, and the recent decisions of that court are featured in this 5th Edition of the Trademark and Unfair Competition Deskbook. This 5th Edition provides practitioners of trademark and unfair competition law an organized guide to the decisions, legislation, treatises, and commentary, a delineation of the principal questions and problems to be expected, and an up-to-date synthesis of the current and develo
