Trade law Part 46

The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials. By PETER VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 737 pp.
Joel P. Trachtman
Journal of International Economic Law
Volume 9, Number 1, March 2006 p.233-235

Essential Business Guide to the Law of International Trade and Commercial Transactions by Apisith John Sutham
Dora S.S. Neo
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
December 2005 p.474

Conditions for Registration and Scope of Protection of Non-Conventional Trade Marks in Singapore
Susanna H S Leong
Singapore Academy of Law Journal
Volume 16, Number 2, 2004 p.423

The Singapore Trade Marks Act 1998, together with the changes for the definition of a trade mark introduced by the Trade Marks Amendment Act 2004, has expanded significantly the type of signs or indicia eligible for registration. Consequently, trade mark registrations in Singapore, and also elsewhere in the world, are no longer limited to traditional two-dimensional words or graphic signs but are also extended to other non-conventional signs such as shapes, smell, sounds, colours and potentially even moving images. The objective of this article is to examine the conditions for registration and the scope of protection of such non-conventional trademarks in Singapore, particularly in the light of recent significant legal developments in this area of the law in other major jurisdictions.

Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names
PHILLIP JOHNSON
European Intellectual Property Review
Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2006 p.67

Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law Between the United States and Singapore: The United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement’s Impact on Singapore’s Intellectual Property Law
Kenneth Chiu
Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal
Volume 18, Number 2, 2005 p.489

Taking “Trade and Culture”Seriously: Geographical Indications and Cultural Protection in WTO Law
Tomer Broude
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2005 p.623

Kennedy, Daniel L. M. and Southwick, James D. (eds.): The Political Economy of International trade law
British Year Book of International Law
Volume 75, 2004 p.388

Change of the watch
Michael D Pendleton
Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Volume 17, Number 1, February 2006 p.10

Some reflections on the role and status of AIPJ, problems with Australian academic law teaching and carrier service provider liability after the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement and the US Supreme Court decision in MGM v Grokster 545 US, 125 SCt 2764 (2005).

Struggling for coherence: A review of recent developments in European trade mark law
David Llewelyn
Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Volume 17, Number 1, February 2006 p.17

This article gives an account of recent developments in trade mark law at European Community level and discusses their impact both on the Community Trade Mark (CTM) system and on the national systems of trade mark registration. Mention will also be made of a couple of recent decisions of the English courts (and of the United Kingdom Trade Mark Registry). Attention will be focused on live issues such as distinctiveness, the concepts of trade mark use in relation to a finding of infringement and of “non-use”with respect to revocation proceedings. The facts and findings of the cases discussed show some of the difficulties that can be encountered in registering, protecting and maintaining trade mark rights, especially in a system which is trying to meld in a coherent fashion widely differing legal cultures and economies. Of course, once the ECJ has opined the national courts and authorities must apply consistently and faithfully the general principles established to all cases before them; as will be seen, this is often a very difficult task.

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