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LS5584: TRADE MARKS AND BRAND DEVELOPMENT (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:10


Course Overview

This course tracks the ongoing interactions between trade mark and related laws on the one hand and the social and commercial practices of branding on the other.  Through the use of cases and contemporary examples throughout, the course examines trade mark and related laws within their historical, current, and developing social and commercial contexts.  It offers a critical view of developments in the laws, their roles in and responses to the evolving practices of branding.  It provides students with both an analytical and a practical view on the protection of trade mark and related rights.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Catherine W. Ng

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Law (LS)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • Master of Laws in International Law and Strategic Studies (Studied)
  • Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (Studied)
  • Master of Laws in International Law and International Relations (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course takes a critical view of the developments, within their commercial and social contexts, of trade mark and related laws, both statutory and common law. Among the issues addressed are how these developments in the laws have been influenced by commercial concerns, and how these developments have been influential to brand development within the commercial sector and public discourse. The course will also attempt to project the trajectory of future developments in the laws and consider the boundaries which should and which do define these laws.

 

The course will analyse the substantive aspects of Trade Marks Act 1994 in relation to trade mark registration and infringement, trade mark licensing and assignment, parallel importation, certification and collective marks as well as the common law of passing off, its legal foundations and its continuing relevance in given the current state of technology.


Contact Teaching Time

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

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Formative Assessment

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