[HYBRID] Distinguished Visitor In Intellectual Property Lecture: Trademark Law As A Normative Project
April
05
Tuesday
| Speaker: | Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law |
| Moderator: | Professor David Tan Head (Intellectual Property), EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS Law |
| Time: | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (SGT) |
| Venue: | Wee Chong Jin Moot Court, NUS Law (Block B, Level 1) and Zoom |
| Type of Participation: | Open To Public |
Description
Trademark law is motivated in part by the goal of protecting certain consumer understandings. Courts typically treat such consumer understanding as a pre-determined, relatively fixed, fact to which the template of trademark law can be applied and from which answers to the relevant legal questions thus inevitably flow. In the Barker Lecture, Prof. Dinwoodie will challenge this approach as descriptively incomplete and prescriptively harmful. The descriptive account masks important normative choices that courts are making about trademark law without any explicit discussion of those choices. Thus, this form of trademark decision-making prevents development of a full debate about the nature and scope of trademark law.
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CPD Points
1
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Training Category: Foundation
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