We are delighted to announce the dates and speakers for online events comprising the CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series, Spring 2023. We will hear from Prof. Kathy Bowrey and Dr Jose Bellido on Trade Mark History on 8 March and from Prof. Ian Ayres and Dr. Xiyin Tang on Empirical Methods on 15 March*. Please see below for details of the first talk.
SEMINAR 1: TRADE MARK HISTORY
Time and place: Wednesday 8 March 2023, 9am to 10am, UK time, online.
Speakers: Prof. Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales, and Dr Jose Bellido, University of Kent.
Chair: Dr. Elena Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, CREATe.
Title: Researching Trade Mark Histories: Records and Methodologies.
Abstract: In 1930, the American advertising and trademark lawyer, Clowry Chapman, highlighted the importance and diversity of trademark records. This included preliminary interdepartmental memos, corporate resolutions, instructions to an artist, invoices, shipping instructions, waybills, orders from customers, and registrations. Interestingly, he also counted in the commodity and the container, a collection of exhibits that constituted, according to him, ‘a cycle of proof’. Taking Chapman’s insight as a point of departure, Kathy Bowrey and Jose Bellido will discuss their experiences in researching trade mark records for their recent book Adventures in Childhood. Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play (CUP, 2022). In doing so, they will consider different methodologies prompted by those records in exploring the history of intellectual property in the twentieth century.
Biographies:
Kathy Bowrey is a legal and cultural historian and Professor at the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of NSW (Australia). She is interested in how cultural commodification operates on a global scale. Her most recent works include Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author, (Routledge, 2021) and Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination, and the Business of Play (Cambridge University Press, 2022) [with Jose Bellido]. She is a Co-Director of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property.
Jose Bellido teaches law at the University of Kent (UK). He is particularly interested in the history of intellectual property law and has additional research interests in legal theory, evidence and legal history. His publications include Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law (Hart Publishing, 2017) and Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination, and the Business of Play (Cambridge University Press, 2022) [with Kathy Bowrey]
As previously announced, the CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series comprises two on-line talks about trade mark law each term: one on trade mark history (convened by Dr Elena Cooper), and one on innovative methodologies in trade mark research (convened by Dr Xiaoren Wang). The Series was launched in Summer 2022. It is open to scholars (including research students) of any discipline worldwide.
Zoom links for the seminars will be emailed a few days before the events to all on the CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series mailing list. There is no need to RSVP. To join the mailing list, please contact Elena Cooper: elena.cooper@glasgow.ac.uk
*The seminar on 15 March 2022 was cancelled due to strike action by the University and College Union (UCU). It was eventually held on 6 December 2023.