Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts

Tim W. Dornis holds the Chair in Private Law, International Private and Economic Law, and Comparative Law at Leuphana Law School. He studied law and economics in Germany (Universität Tübingen) and in the United States (Columbia University, LL.M., (James Kent Scholar), and Stanford Law School, J.S.M.). Before his appointment, Professor Dornis spent several years practicing in an international law firm and as a civil-law judge. His scholarship has been awarded a number of prizes and he frequently publishes in international law reviews and journals.

• Acknowledgments; Table of cases; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Civil-law history - Germany and Europe; 2. Common-law history - United States; 3. A ragged landscape of theories; 4. Substantive policy - convergent foundations; 5. International comity - a doctrine of self-restraint; 6. Reconceptualization, reinterpretation, and typology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index.

'Tim W. Dornis' work is a landmark! It makes available a wealth of German and European sources to common lawyers and of US sources to civil lawyers. It may incite Europeans to rethink whether the emperor's new clothes (i.e. trademarks as IP rights under the country-of-protection principle) are really that stunning. Lastly - and certainly not least - it looks at whether trademark infringements on the internet should call for some international harmonization of the self-restraint requirement.' Jochen Glöckner, Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law