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Trade mark law has become an increasingly important field oflaw in the context of a rapidly globalizing economy. The promotion andprotection of marks is widely viewed as the most important tool for asuccessful expansion of business, particularly in areas of economictransformation such as the Asia-Pacific region. The importance of theAsian market for global competition makes the appearance of a book onthe protection of well-known marks in Asia extremely timely.This collection of expert essays examines the legal protection ofwell-known marks both under trade mark and unfair competition law in10 different jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region, analysing thestill widespread piracy of well-known marks in the context of theunderlying legal and cultural concepts. It explores the significanceof trade marks in an information society, highlighting the tensionsbetween those seeking to protect their well-established brandsglobally in an age of electronic commerce, and those concerned toprevent large firms from being granted indiscriminate control overcertain marks without having made the corresponding marketing efforts.It examines the opportunities and problems arising from the advent ofthe new digital technology, and looks at some of the issues thetechnology gives rise to, such as the protection of domain names.The papers collected in this volume are the revised and updatedproceedings of a conference on Trade Marks, Domain Names and UnfairCompetition in the Information Age, held in Taipei in January 1999, asthe result of the co-operation by the Sun Yat-Sen Institute for SocialSciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, and the Max PlanckInstitute, Munich. ... Read more

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In 1984, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft founded a new institute for social sciences in Cologne, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Gesellschaftsforschung, run by Renate Mayntz. The new institute was the outcome of an unsuccessful experiment led by the MPG 14 years earlier.In 1970, the MPG began to work on a project in Starnberg that explored living conditions in a scientific-technical world. The project was run by Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker and Jurgen Habermas. The institute mainly dealt with explosive political topics. It was known for its left-wing tendencies, for talking politics and being polarizing.When Weizsacker's research came to a standstill in 1980, an outcry went through the left wing and an alternative part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The nomination of the renowned head of the London School of Economics, Ralf Dahrendorf, failed and the resignation of Jurgen Habermas in 1981 sealed the end of the Starnberg enterprise.The reputation of the MPG and its president Reimar Lust suffered, and the traditional society was put under pressure to act. The end of the Starnberg institute was not meant to turn into the end of social sciences within the MPG. A new and successful institute had to be established without repeating the mistakes made in Starnberg.In her book, Ariane Leendertz gives insight into discussions of and decisions made by the MPG that lead to the closure of the Starnberg institute but also to the new institute in Cologne. Debates that took place within the MPG are put into a broader context of the social-political climate and developments in the social sciences and sociology in the 1970s and early 1980s.In the years "after the boom," the Federal Republic of Germany changed fast and profoundly and caused a new trend in social sciences and to a series in crisis discourse. This also had an effect on the founding programme of the MPI for social sciences. German text. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Max-Planck-Gesellschaft when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Although the Standard Model of strong and electroweakinteractions describesparticle physics phenomena up to thevector boson mass scale very well, itis in general believedthat it is not the ultimate theory. The aim of thisseriesof seminars was to initiate discussions between fieldtheoristsand phenomenologically oriented high energyphysicists on the observableconsequenses of the concept ofSUSY. The subjects covered by the individual contributionsinclude an introduction to the basic features ofSUSYmodels, in particular the minimal supersymmetric StandardModel, followed by discussions of the theoreticalpredictions and experimental findings on the particlecontent and mass spectra, cosmological consequenses,indirect manifestations through quantum effects,radiativecorrections in the supersymmetric Higgs sector, and theconcept of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking in thecontext ofSUSY. These topics are treated at a levelappropriate for advanced students.However, the book shouldalso be useful for teachers and researchers. ... Read more