Trade Marks Law and Practice 2nd Edition

Trade Marks: Law and Practice is a concise account of the law of UK trade marks law within the European and international context. Written by Alison Firth, Professor of Commercial Law, University of Newcastle, author of the popular Trade Marks: The New Law (Jordans, 1994), this text deals with all the relevant domestic and international developments.

The text incorporates and analyses the ongoing amendments to the Trade Marks Act 2004, amendments to the Trade Marks Rules 2000 and the expansion of the system of international registration of trade marks under the Madrid Protocol and the International Trademark Treaty. The appendixes include helpful consolidated versions of the Act and the Rules.

The work offers a coherent and logical analysis of the legal framework in which trade marks operate expertly distilled for ease and speed of reference. It considers the commercial functions of trade marks and how to use them; how to protect trade marks and the process of registration, licensing and assignment.

• The commercial functions of a trade mark
• The mark itself
• Legal models of protection
• Limits to trade mark protection
• Registration
• Using the mark
• Pursuing infringements
• Defending infringement proceedings
• Cancellation of registration
• Licensing others to use the mark
• Assignment of marks
• Special category marks
• Trade marks and European Community Law
• The Community Trademark
• Trade Mark Systems Worldwide: International Cooperation and Harmonisation
• International Registration: The Madrid Agreement and Protocol
• Appendixes:
• Trade Marks Act 1994 consolidated
• Trade Marks Rules 2000 consolidated
• Trade Marks Directive