‘Trade (mark) wars, 1860-1920: sweatshops, the retail trade and the meaning of trade marks.’

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• Dr Jennifer Davis, Fellow, Wolfson College; Member, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law
• Tuesday 12 May 2015, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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A registered trade mark acts an indication of origin for goods but tells us nothing specific about the circumstances under which the goods originated. This limitation was not inevitable. After trade marks became objects of registration in 1875, what information they would embody was a matter of heated contestation between manufacturers, retailers, exporters, trade unions and anti-immigration activists. This lecture will examine this debate and suggest why, in the end, it was the interests of labour which lost out.

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