Fashion and Intellectual Property

Author: David Tan; Jeanne Fromer; Dev Gangjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009519601
Published In: November 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Fashion is a multi-billion-dollar global business, which is not surprising because of our basic need to wear clothes and shoes. The fashion system thrives on ephemerality, novelty, seduction and hedonism. There are countless books on intellectual property law, numerous books on fashion theory, and a few books on fashion law, but hardly any on fashion and intellectual property.

This book assembles a constellation of some of the best-known intellectual property scholars around the world to present their analysis of how different aspects of intellectual property laws interact with and regulate the fashion industry. It presents a meticulously curated collection of how intellectual property laws interact with contemporary fashion and culture studies in protecting fashion creations that range from clothing and footwear to textiles. It covers key features of intellectual property rights regimes in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Asia that include copyright, trademarks, patents and geographical indications.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks:

1. Fashion, post-postmodernism and intellectual property

David Tan

2. Intellectual property law and the dream of post-scarcity society

Barton Beebe

Part II. Intellectual Property Rights - Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents and Registered Designs:

3. Fashion's function in intellectual property law

Christopher Buccafusco and Jeanne C. Fromer

4. Shape trade marks are in fashion: a study of footwear and sneakers in Australia

Vicki Huang

5. Non-Traditional trade marks (NTTMs), distinctiveness and the fashion industry

Susanna H. S. Leong and Irene Calboli