This paper discusses the story behind the leading U.S. Supreme Court case, Steele v Bulova Watch Co., 344 U.S. 280 (1952). In Steele, the Supreme Court decided that in limited circumstances rights under the U.S. Lanham Act (the U.S. federal trademark statute) could reach conduct beyond the U.S....

Since its “judicial creation” in the 1970s, much controversy has surrounded the practice of trademark merchandising. Because of the departure from the traditional interpretation of trademark law - protecting consumers and the market - in favor of a direct protection of trademark “value,”...

All good 'cyberlawyers' know that in the late 1990s, legal and regulatory measures were adopted, both at the domestic and international level to address the then-growing problem of 'cybersquatting': that is, the registration of often multiple domain names corresponding to valuable corporate...

This paper surveys from an economic standpoint a number of important legal issues that influence the market for art, which include the creation, sale, valuation, maintenance and, in some instances, the destruction of works of art. We show that the important legal doctrines that bear on the...