Trade Mark Litigation: Jurisdictional Comparisons 2nd ed

This title explains the latest legislation and precedents involving trade mark litigation in over 25 jurisdictions.

It adopts a country-by-country approach with content provided by expert practitioners from each jurisdiction and follows a common format to allow straightforward comparisons.

Trade Mark Litigation provides practitioners with the following:-

• Takes into account the enormous expansion of digital commerce and the growing roles of trade mark registration in fighting abuses on the internet
• Answers such questions as ‘can I oppose or cancel this trade mark?’ and the basis for taking such actions – like national or supranational rights, and the procedures for doing so
• Sets out each country’s courts and administrative system
• Looks at the available enforcement options
• Goes through civil court procedure
• Indentifies the available remedies
• Covers trade mark enforcement against metatag
• Examines unjustified threats of trade mark infringement
• Analyses conflicts between trade mark and domain name