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  • with Tanya Aplin, Intellectual Property: Text, Cases and Materials 4th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • with Alan Durant, “Directions in Intellectual Property Research: A Linguistic Contribution” in I. Calboli and M.L. Montagnani, Handbook on Intellectual Property Research (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • “Exiling the unwary consumer from unregistered trade mark law in the UK: the case for change” in G.B.Dinwoodie and M. D. Janis, Research Handbook on Trade Mark Reform (Edward Elgar, 2021)
  • ‘Limitations to Trademark Protection as Defences to Infringement’ in I. Calboli and J. Ginsburg, The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
  • 'The Role of Confusion in Unfair Competition Law: A Comparative Perspective' in S. Frankel (ed.), Is Intellectual Property Pluralism Functional? (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019)
  • Contributor, 'Keywords for Today: 21st Century Vocabulary' edited by Colin MacCabe, Holly Janacek and the Keywords Project (Oxford: OUP, 2018)
  • (with A. Durant), 'Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges' in J. Visconti (ed), Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere (Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018), pp. 287-320
  • (with Tanya Aplin) Intellectual Property: Text, Cases and Materials (3rd edition) (Oxford:OUP, 2017) 
  • (with A. Durant), ‘HAVE A BREAK and the Changing Demands of Trade Mark Registration’ Q.M.J.I.P. 2015, 5(2), pp. 132-156
  • 'Revisiting the Average Consumer: An Uncertain Presence in European Trade Mark Law' [2015] Intellectual Property Quarterly, 15
  • 'The "Exhaustion Approach" to Trade Mark Protection: A Parallel Universe or a Better Way?' [2014] Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice
  • 'Promoting the Public Interest and the European Trade Mark Directive: A Contradictory Approach' [2013] Journal of the Academy of European Law, 14, pp. 117-129
  • 'Country Reports: United Kingdom' in F. Henning-Bodewig, International Handbook on Unfair Competition Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2013
  • Intellectual Property Law, 4th Edition, Butterworths Core Text Series, 2012
  • 'To Protect or Not to Protect? The Eligibility of Commercially Used Short Verbal Texts for Copyright and Trade Mark Protection' 4 [2011] Intellectual Property Quarterly, 354
  • 'Passing Off and Joint Liability: The Rise and Fall of 'Instruments of Deception' [2011] 4 European Intellectual Property Review, 33, pp. 204-10
  • Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique (ed. with L. Bently and J. Ginsburg) Cambridge University Press, 2010
  • 'Why the United Kingdom Should Have a Law Against Misappropriation' [2010] Cambridge Law Journal, 69, pp. 561-582
  • 'Of Plots, Puddings and Draught Excluders: the Law as it Applies to the Infringement of Computer Programs' in Bently, et al., Copyright and Piracy Cambridge University Press, 2010 pp. 230-245
  • 'Trade Marks, Brands and Competition'(with S. Maniatis) in T. da Silva Lopes and D. Duguid (eds.) Trademarks, Brands and Competitiveness Routledge, 2010
  • Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (ed. with T. Aplin) Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (ed. with L. Bently and J. Ginsburg) Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • 'Between a Sign and a Brand: Mapping the Boundaries of a Registered Trade Mark in European Trade Mark Law' in L. Bently, J. Ginsburg and J. Davis (eds.), Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique Cambridge University Press, 2008 pp.65-91
  • 'Protecting the Common: Delineating a Public Domain in Trade Mark Law' in G. Dinwoodie and M. Janis (eds.) Trade Mark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research Edward Elgar Press, 2008 pp. 345-367
  • 'Fame and its Exploitation: the Legal Protection of Celebrity in the United Kingdom' in B. Bogusz, A. Cygan and E. Szyszczak (eds.) Sports Law Edward Elgar Press, 2007 pp. 181-205
  • 'Unfair Competition Law in the United Kingdom' in R. Hilty and F. Henning-Bodewig (eds.) The Law Against Unfair Competition: Towards a Paradigm in Europe Springer, 2007 pp. 183-193
  • 'The Value of Trade Marks: Economic Assets and Cultural Icons' in Y. Gendreau (ed.) Intellectual Property: Bridging Aesthetics and Economics Themis, University of Montreal, 2006 pp. 97-123
  • 'Locating the Average Consumer: His Judicial Origins, Intellectual 'Influences and Current Role in European Trade Mark Law' [2005] 2 Intellectual Property Quarterly, 183
  • 'The Need to Leave Free for Others to Use and the Trade Mark Common' in J. Phillips and I. Simon (eds.) Trade Mark Use: Essays in the Concept of Use in Relation to Trade Mark Law Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 p. 31
  • 'A European Constitution for IPRs? Competition, Trade Marks and Culturally Significant Signs', 4 [2004] Common Market Law Review, 44
  • 'To Protect or Serve? European Trade Mark Law and the Decline of the Public Interest' [2003] 4 European Intellectual Property Review, 180
  • 'European Trade Mark Law and the Enclosure of the Commons' [2002] 4 Intellectual Property Quarterly, 342

Case Notes and Reviews

  • “'Fack Ju Gohte': or when is a trade mark offensive” (2020) Cambridge Law Journal (2020) 79(2), pp. 234-237
  • ‘Graeme B. Dinwoodie (ed), Intellectual Property and General Legal Principles: is IP a Lex Specialis?’ EIPR (forthcoming, 2016)
  • ‘The continuing importance of local goodwill in passing off (Case Comment)’ C.L.J. 2015, 74(3) pp. 419-422.
  • ‘Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition and Publicity: Convergences and Development (Publication Review)’ IIC 2015, 46(4) pp. 501-504.
  • ‘ROBERT SPOO. Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain’, The American Historical Review (2014) 119 (3) pp. 917-918.
  • ‘Relocating the Law of Geographical Indications (Publication Review)’ C.L.J. 2013, 72(1), 230-232
  • ‘The breach of the “Euro Defence” to trade Mark infringement (Case Comment) C.L.J. 2013, 72(1), 31-34
  • Book review: 'Driving Innovation' in Cambridge Law Journal, vol. 68, issue 03, November 2009, pp. 667-669
  • 'The ECJ Considers Trade Mark Dilution' in Cambridge Law Journal, vol. 68, issue 02, July 2009, pp. 290-292
  • Book review: 'Unfair Competition Law: The European Union and Member States' by Frauke Henning-Bodewig, European Intellectual Property Review, July 2007
  • 'The Baby-Dry' Case: The Modernisation of Trade Marks?', Case note, (2002) 1 Cambridge Law Journal
  • Book review: 'The Legal Aspects of the Community Trade Mark' by Eric Gastinel and Mark Milford, European Law Review, February 2002
  • 'The King is Dead, Long Live the King', Case note, (2002) 1 Cambridge Law Journal
  • Book review: 'Trade Marks in Theory and Practice' by C.D.G. Pickering, (1999) 1 Cambridge Law Journal
  • 'Silhouette and the Limits of Free Trade', Case note, (1998) 3 Cambridge Law Journal
  • 'How the Trade Marks Act Shapes Up to Perpetual Monopolies', Case note, (1998) 2 Cambridge Law Journal
  • 'The Value of a Reputation', Case Note, (1998) 1 Cambridge Law Journal
  • 'First Principles or Old Principles? The English Courts and the 1994 Trade Marks Act', Case Note, (1996) 3 Cambridge Law Journal

Talks

  • April 2011, London School of Economics, LLM Programme, Unfair Competition
  • March 2010, University of Leeds, LLM Programme, Passing Off and Misappropriation
  • March 2010, Trade Marks and Instruments of Fraud, Widening the Net: Contributory Liability for Facilitating, Authorising and Inducing Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
  • December 2009, EIPA, Luxembourg, Recent Trends in the Case Law of the European Courts: Latest Developments and Prospects for the Future, Trade Mark Law