What intellectual property lawyers can learn from Barbra Streisand, Sepp Blatter, and the "Coca-Cola cry-baby" : dealing with "trademark bullying" in South Africa
"Being a monopolist" is, apparently, akin to going on drugs or joining some strange religious sect. It seems to lead to complete loss of any sense of what profitable opportunities are and of how free markets function. Monopolists, apparently, can conceive of only one way of making money, a...
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Published in | Potchefstroom electronic law journal Vol. 16; no. 5; pp. 1 - 42 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English Portuguese Afrikaans |
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North-West University
01.01.2013
North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | "Being a monopolist" is, apparently, akin to going on drugs or joining some strange religious sect. It seems to lead to complete loss of any sense of what profitable opportunities are and of how free markets function. Monopolists, apparently, can conceive of only one way of making money, and that is by bullying consumers and competitors to put up and shut up. Furthermore, it also appears to mean that past mistakes have to be repeated at a larger, and ever more ridiculous, scale. |
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ISSN: | 1727-3781 1727-3781 |
DOI: | 10.4314/pelj.v16i5.1 |