Jamie Muir Wood

The new edition of a well-established text, A Practical Guide to UK Trade Mark Law provides a comprehensive, digestible, and approachable explanation of trade mark law. Fully updated with the most recent and relevant case law, this book provides a comprehensive yet practical explanation of the law on the acquisition, registration, and protection of trade mark rights. It addresses registered trade marks as well as unregistered rights in the form of the action for passing off, and aims to show how those registered and unregistered rights co-exist. It also offers guidance on how to enforce those rights, including the choice of tribunal and the remedies and outcomes available both in the civil and criminal courts. Now in its sixth edition, A Practical Guide to UK Trade Mark Law is an indispensable resource for trade mark attorneys, students and IP solicitors.

Focuses on the current law relating to the protection of registered trademarks and certain related rights. This includes registered trade marks, well-known trade marks, certification marks, collective marks, protested geographical origin indicators, international conventions, and passing off. There is clear explanation of the underlying principles and concepts with a breakdown of procedural matters, thereby helping to tie the different areas together. Individual topics covered include: Kit-Kat - when can 3D shape marks benefit from ‘acquired distinctiveness’? Whether colours may form part of 3D shape marks - LouboutinInfringement by ‘wrong way round’ confusion Limitations on the own-name defenceCalculation of damages, and the availability of blocking injunctionsThis title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.