Alison Firth

Reception of EU Trade Mark Law in New Zealand

European trade mark norms found their way into the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO TRIPs) and into the law of New Zealand, a WTO member state. This chapter charts the journey of those norms by analysing treaty and legislative texts as well as the processes leading to TRIPs. It questions whether New Zealand law has taken on problematic aspects of EU trade mark law as well as beneficial ones. The chapter’s processes and findings exemplify the book’s theoretical framework of norm reception—adoption, adaptation, resistance and rejection. New Zealand law has proved resistant to the problems under study, whilst successfully adopting beneficial aspects and adapting them to local conditions.

Code, Autonomous Concepts and Procedure: Stepping Stones for European Law?

Two propositions are advanced in this paper as important to development of intellectual property in the European Union: 1. Judicial development of law is often seen as a feature of the common law (as opposed to civil law) world; but is at work in the European Union on intellectual property issues. 2. In intellectual property and related rights, procedure and remedies govern what issues come into prominence.

Seabirds, Series and Sonar: claiming registered rights

This book covers an extensive range of critical issues in modern Intellectual Property(IP) law under three broad headings; Technology, Market Freedom and the ...