Trade Marks Workshop

Following last year’s successful workshop, “Signs, Commodities and Communication: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Trade Marks”, CIPIL and Emmanuel College will be holding a further Workshop on 3 July 2006 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.



The 2005 Workshop initiated a dialogue between participants interested in trade marks from a wide range of disciplines. Its object had been to inform the way trade marks might be understood, not simply in a legal context, but also as signs which carry a multiplicity of meanings and play a number of social and economic roles. An underlying assumption of both the first and the second Workshop is that the study of trade marks will be enriched by an acknowledgement of the varied perspectives which might be brought to bear on their study. The purpose of the first Workshop was broadly to discover common ground and to identify the questions which participants from different disciplines might bring to the study of trade marks.



This second Workshop will be organised around a number of formal presentations from a range of perspectives. Papers and commentaries will be presented by academics from the fields of law, philosophy, anthropology, history, linguistics, marketing and economics. It is hoped that these papers will build on the insights provided in the first Workshop to further our understanding of trade marks and to suggest new directions for research.



To date, the following have agreed to provide papers or commentary.



Papers



* Alan Durant

* Jonathan Schroeder

* Andrew Griffiths

* Celia Lury

* Jennifer Davis

* Lionel Bently

* Bronwyn Parry



Commentary



* Graeme Dinwoodie

* David Vaver

* Greg Myers

* David Higgins

* Catherine Ng

* Dev Gangjee

* Michael Spence