Company Names: The Truth Behind The Law?

Today the IPKat met Polish legal scholar Joanna Sitko, who is currently visiting London. Joanna, who teaches Intellectual Property Law inward the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, is working on a doctoral thesis which compares the roles played past times fellowship names, merchandise names together with merchandise marks inward identifying companies together with inward protecting their trading interests. Poland patently has a novel law, which prohibits the assignment of fellowship names. One can't help wondering if this constabulary was passed for the create goodness of the concern community, or if it was something dreamed upwards by bureaucrats for bureaucrats ...

Anyone who shares Joanna's interests inward this topic is welcome to contact her guide here.

Derivation of fellowship names here
Spoof concern names here

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