Santa Claus, Coca-Cola and Trademarks
Bradford, in her 2009 paper 'Trademark Dilution and Emotion', sheds some unexpected light on the story of the Santa Claus traditionally featured in advertisements for Coca-Cola: A third example is…
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity
Intellectual Property and Biodiversity: Rights to Animal Genetic Resources by Michelangelo Temmerman is to be published on 19th December. This is a significant resource at 320 pages. This book covers:…
Contractual Arrangement Regarding Protection of Traditional Knowledge Holders
Just possibly you don't follow all the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference Papers. In that case you would miss this one. Their paper looks at private contractual arrangements…
Gene Thieves
Susan Watt writes at the Economic and Social Research Council a very readable introduction to the Nagoya Protocol and the looming deadline of February 2012. The Nagoya Protocol on Access…