The phrase 'international competition law' is something of a misnomer. There is no supranational authority charged with generating, applying, or enforcing competition law, there are almost no binding international agreements on the subject, and there are no international requirements with...

Given the rudimentary nature of the current set of EU rules, the regulation of trademark transactions in the EU depends on a harmonious interplay of harmonized EU law on the one hand, and individual national laws on the other. This configuration of the system places a particular responsibility...

A trademark can be not only a word or logo, but also a color, sound, three-dimensional object, and many other nontraditional items. Corporations are increasingly seeking nontraditional trademark protection instead of or in addition to traditional patents and/or copyrights. They are also...

Contemporary analysis of trademark rights rests on the premise that consumer confusion constitutes the primary, if not the sole, rational basis of protection. Dilution theory has gradually come to be considered an almost undesired exception to the general rule of confusion-based liability and...