Social media, sites where users can generate content and interact with each other, such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogger, have placed trademark holders for “brand” new challenges and opportunities. Trademark holders seem to have unwittingly signed a Faustian pact with social media sites. On...

2021 was a miraculous year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which led to confusion among observers of the phenomenon from both the art industry and regulatory authorities. This article provides a dispassionate analysis of the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property (IP)...

The EU is ferociously protecting its Geographical Indications (GIs) in the name of authenticity and rural development. Not only in the countries of the EU, but internationally. Australia and most other New World countries protect geographical names via their trademark system, but also via a sui...

Five years after its accession to the World Trade Organisation, the consensus among IP lawyers and scholars at the IPR in China Conference in London last year was that China has enormously improved its IPR system. However, it is still far from perfect. On the books China's implementations of IPR...

Territoriality is one of the important principles of trademark law; however, the principle of territoriality is problematic and leads to many conflicts in the era of globalized trade and e-commerce. The European Union (EU) and Switzerland have a doctrine of maximalist protection of Indications...

Since foreign social media sites have been banned, three Chinese social media sites, all listed at the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, are thriving. Chinese social media are insulated from foreign competition at their domestic market. However doing business in China does not become easier for...

Most people are dependent on agriculture for food. Food from intensive livestock farming provides a multitude of negative externalities. It contributes to the emission of carbon dioxide, and the more potent methane and nitrous oxide. It also emits the non-greenhouse gas ammonia, which together...

Google and China have found each other in a marriage of convenience, in order to serve the one god they both live by: innovation. This article deals with censorship and intellectual property. Two of the biggest challenges that the internet present to the legal community. The main characters are...