Table of Contents A) General § 1 What is Unfair Competition? § 2 International Protection Against Unfair Competition § 3 Regional Protection Against Unfair Competition B) Country Reports § 1 Australia § 2 Austria § 3 Brazil § 4 Canada § 5 China § 6 France § 7 Germany § 8 Hungary § 9 India § 10 Italy § 11 Japan § 12 Lithuania § 13 Netherlands § 14 Poland § 15 Spain § 16 South Africa § 17 Sweden § 18 Switzerland § 19 Turkey § 20 UK § 21 USA C) Outlook
Frauke Henning-Bodewig is head of a research unit at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich and professor at the University of Erlangen. The authors are experts from the countries they report on.
There are at least three broad reasons why this book should be
regarded as a welcome addition to any law library. First, it gives
easy access to a wide variety of legal jurisdictions, many of whose
laws are only comprehensible to those familiar with their
respective native languages, to an English-reading audience. In
addition, key legal terms in French and German, for example, are
identified and explained in English to give the reader a more
nuanced understanding of the jurisprudential contours of these
legal systems. Furthermore, each country report includes a very
substantial bibliography of reference materials relevant to the
unfair competition laws of that particular jurisdiction. Secondly,
despite the relatively modest length of each country report, the
authors have succeeded in providing the reader with a sufficiently
comprehensive picture of the different facets of their respective
unfair competition law regimes. General clauses in statutes are
analysed alongside leading case law from national and, in the case
of Europe, supranational tribunals. Activity-specific regulations
dealing with diverse practices, from ambush marketing to
comparative advertising, and from trademark dilution to consumer
protection regulations, are also examined in some detail. Thirdly,
through the first few chapters of the book, the editor has done a
very commendable job of constructing a helpful conceptual and
thematic framework for understanding the many different moving
parts that make up the machinery behind each country’s unfair
competition laws.
*Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2013*
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