What would our trademark law without André Bertrand?
The second reason is that his thinking is nourished an important practical (André Bertrand is a lawyer, and not any) and it has a unique approach to matters on which he wrote, making its extremely interesting works.
Anyway, in July 2005 was published by Dalloz the new edition of the Law of Trademarks, distinguishing marks, domain names (in the collection Dalloz Action, which by the way is really great well that quite expensive, but as the name suggests, it is primarily for practitioners).
A frequent visitor was kind enough to transcribe and send me the following passage that suggests (but of course this can only be a false impression 😉 that Mr. Bertrand has taken slightly big head .. .
About the evolution of trademark law last fifteen years:
“The situation has really changed in the middle of 2000, under the combined effect of several events. Among these include the publication at the end of 1999 the first edition of the book on the right brands and distinctive signs that we then published the Cedat editions, then the publicity given to the case law of the Court of justice of the European Communities and the Ohmi and some courageous decisions that have the effect of calling the right french positive on the path set by the European directive “.
The prose of André Bertrand, stronger than the ECJ and OHIM together.
The Strasbourg law school made its ad on the internet
Type the keyword “right” on the of search engine Amazon.fr , MSN , Yahoo , Lycos or Altavista , and you will see this .
It is a priori rather surprising to see a public administrative * advertise, do it that way, and so his name mixed up with those of commercial sites …
Also note that the successful slogan itself has a very commercial sounding ( “LMD comes into force, all the online offer”).
Perhaps the signs of an competition (assumed) between facs of law that profilerait on the horizon …
* Of course, for the purists, universities are institutions’ scientific and technical character “(Act of 12 November 1975), even” scientific, cultural and professional “(Law of 26 January 1984), but according to René Chapus (expensive publicists see I still have good readings ;-), “in fact we are in the presence of public administrative establishments whose activity itself has the character of an administrative public service “(R. Chapus, General administrative law, public law Domat, 15th edition, Vol. 1, No. 500).