Unfair Competition Law: European Union and Member States

The book delineates, with extraordinary clarity and precision, the working of
unfair competition law throughout the European Union. Its four comprehensive
chapters encompass: basic considerations of definition, subject matter,
enforcement, and applicable law: international provisions under the Paris
convention, TRIPS, and WIPO model law; analysis of relevant EC directives and
regulations and ECJ jurisprudence; and extensive discussions of the national
unfair competition laws of all 25 Member States.

For each Member State, specific topics covered include such considerations as
the following:

• sources of law;

• competition law in a nutshell;

• regulation of advertising;

• direct marketing;

• sales promotion;

• risk of confusion;

• disparagement, defamation;

• misappropriation, imitation;

• impediment of competitors; and

• breach of the law.

  The author also provides a selected bibliography of sources for each country.

  It would be difficult to find a more useful analysis of European Unfair
  Competition Law than this systematic study. It is practical, thorough,
  clarifying, and readable, all at the same time. The author untangles the most
  complex of apparent contradictions with impressive skill. Copies of this book
  will quickly take their places on the working shelves of interested
  practitioners, academics, and officials throughout Europe.