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Trademarks And Geographical Indications: Conflict Or Coexistence?, Melissa A. Loucks
Trademarks And Geographical Indications: Conflict Or Coexistence?, Melissa A. Loucks
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Both trademarks and geographical indications are legal devices which regulate communication to markets about a product. Trademarks indicate the commercial origin of a good or service while geographical indications signal the geographic origin. Both tools also legally grant exclusive rights to certain uses of a word or symbol. Tension arises when the tools overlap on the same subject matter. The thesis asks: is coexistence between the devices in the TRIPS Agreement possible? Are the concepts of trademarks and geographical indications related? If so, how? If not, how? Does the marketing literature of business recognize both registered trademarks and geographical indications …
The Codex: Labelling Of Food Derived From Modern Biotechnology, Sowmya Latha Hemanahally Vishwanatha
The Codex: Labelling Of Food Derived From Modern Biotechnology, Sowmya Latha Hemanahally Vishwanatha
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The Codex Alimentarius Commission is an international organisation tasked to develop global food standards. In 1993, it decided to develop standards for labelling food derived from modern biotechnology. Despite demands to discontinue its work and an inability to achieve consensus, the “Compilation of Codex texts relevant to labelling of food derived from modern biotechnology” was adopted in 2011. The Compilation accepts different approaches to labelling and comprises ten guidelines that need to be adopted in national labelling policies.
Two models of labelling are prevalent. The voluntary model of labelling allows corporations the choice to label. The mandatory model provides more …
Intellectual Property And Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation And Ideology, Michael B. Mcnally
Intellectual Property And Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation And Ideology, Michael B. Mcnally
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This dissertation examines the ability of intellectual property and its alternatives to both facilitate and impede innovation. The thesis begins by positing that a more detailed and nuanced understanding of alternatives to intellectual property is required so that such alternatives can be effectively used to mitigate the problems of the expansionary intellectual property regime. The thesis is that substantive alternatives to intellectual property utilize a broader range of incentive structures to encourage the production and distribution of intellectual goods, facilitate greater access to such goods and their informational content and engender innovative outcomes that go beyond the narrow, instrumentalist goals …