Trade Rate Licensing: At Last, The Sequel

has been kept on the tips of his paws, impatiently awaiting the instant edition of Neil J. Wilkof's iconic live Trade Mark Licensing (Sweet & Maxwell). Happy to say, this championship has immediately emerged as well as Neil, amongst the aid of diverse friends, has produced an fifty-fifty amend live than the master copy -- which was unleashed on an unsuspecting readership of mortal practitioners as well as in-house attorneys 10 long years ago.

As the publishes boast on their web-blurb:

"Trade Mark Licensing provides a completely rounded perspective on the subject, integrating give-and-take of legal concepts amongst extensive advice on practical concerns. The novel edition has been completely updated, including expanded sections on the European Union dimension of merchandise rate licensing, merchandising, certification marks,and taxation (including handling nether USA law)".

Neil's width of involvement as well as depth of analysis are reflected inwards novel chapters dealing amongst (i) the touching on of TRIPs on merchandise rate licensing, (ii) novel chapters on German, French as well as Benelux police line which, the IPKat adds, should never cause got been necessary if full harmonisation of Europe's merchandise rate regimes had been secured, as well as (iii) especial coverage of merchandise rate licensing aspects of the internet

A practitioner who has non forsaken the demands as well as intellectual rigours of thery, Neil (who himself too teaches Law at Haifa University) has taken on a co-author inwards Daniel Burkett, Research Associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and an enthusiastic copyright as well as contest lawyer. Some of the other chapters cause got been contributed past times Christopher Stothers (Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, London), Asim Singh (Sokolow Carreras, Paris) as well as Julie Le Bars (Nataf Fajgenbaum, Paris), Ludwig Kauker (Boehmert & Boehmert, Bremen) as well as taxation specialist Nigel Eastaway (Chiltern plc, London). Nonetheless Neil's influence is felt throughout.

At £135 this hardback may look honey to some, exactly it packs a lot of punch as well as is good worth the outlay. The reader has to a greater extent than than 450 pages of inwardness to read earlier he hits the Appendices: that's a lot for a mass on this subject.