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Trademark Dilution And Corporate Personhood, Stacey Dogan
Trademark Dilution And Corporate Personhood, Stacey Dogan
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It’s become almost passé to decry our federal trademark dilution laws. The laws – first passed in 1995 and amended in 2006 – protect “famous trademarks” against uses that are likely to dilute their distinctiveness, without regard to any confusion among consumers or competition between the parties. Early critics warned that passage of the anti-dilution statute marked a turning point in trademark law: by giving famous trademark holders rights against even non-confusing uses of their marks, the law created “property”-like rights in trademarks. The initial commentary on the statute focused mainly on the costs associated with this increasingly absolutist approach …
The Cambridge Companion To European Union Private Law, Daniela Caruso
The Cambridge Companion To European Union Private Law, Daniela Caruso
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Well into its teens by now, the private law of the European Union has its own companion. The very appearance of a publication of this sort is indeed a coming-of-age moment for a discipline whose existence was hard to fathom until the 1980s. Member states’ judges and lawyers have come full circle, from resisting European Union private law as an intrusion into a quintessentially national sphere, to embracing it as a natural consequence of market integration. The question is no longer whether or not to approximate the private laws of the member states. The question is how to do it. …