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Euro-Yearnings? Moving Toward A "Substantive" Registration-Based Trademark Regime, Jane C. Ginsburg
Euro-Yearnings? Moving Toward A "Substantive" Registration-Based Trademark Regime, Jane C. Ginsburg
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In Alan Jay Lerner’s lyric, Professor Henry Higgins laments: "Why can’t a woman be more like a man?" Professor Rebecca Tushnet’s provocative article in effect urges that a U.S. trademark should be more like a European Union trademark, at least with respect to the relationship of registration to substantive protection. The article convincingly exposes the current incoherence in U.S. trademark law – a hybrid between “procedural” and “substantive” registration regimes, in which the traditional emphasis on use-based trademark rights undermines the business-planning benefits that flow from registration.
Before elaborating on the similarities between Tushnet’s suggested reforms of U.S. trademark law …