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Uma Suthersanen

Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Professor of Global Intellectual Property Law

67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

London, WC2A 3JB

United Kingdom

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1.

Function, Art and Fashion: Do We Need the EU Design Law?

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 88/2011
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2011
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Global Intellectual Property Law: Chapter 1

Global Intellectual Property Law, Edward Elgar, 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
Uma Suthersanen and Graham Dutfield
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and University of Leeds
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intellectual property, comparative law

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Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property Subject Matter: Perspectives from History, Anthropology, and Diverse Economies

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 418/2024
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Jan 2024
Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen
University of Leeds and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Intellectual property, Traditional knowledge, Law and Society, Law and History

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Utility Models: Do They Really Serve National Innovation Strategies?

The Innovation Society and Intellectual Property, in Josef Drexl & Anselm Kamperman Sanders (eds), Edward Elgar, 2019, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 274/2018
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2020
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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The First Global Copyright Act

THE FIRST GLOBAL COPYRIGHT ACT, IN A SHIFTING EMPIRE: 100 YEARS OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1911, U. Suthersanen & Y. Gendreau, eds., Edward Elgar, 2012, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 106/2012
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Mar 2012
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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An Autonomous EU Functionality Doctrine for Shape Exclusions

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 339, Uma Suthersanen, Marc D Mimler, An Autonomous EU Functionality Doctrine for Shape Exclusions, GRUR International, Volume 69, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 567–577
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2023
Uma Suthersanen and Marc Mimler
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and City University London, The City Law School, Students
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Response to the Copyright and AI Consultation

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 443/2025, Submission to the UK's Copyright and AI Consultation
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 04 Mar 2025
Gaetano Dimita, Michaela MacDonald and Uma Suthersanen
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law - Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London - School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Copyright, AI, Text-and-Data Mining (TDM) exception, Intellectual Property, AI Regulation and Governance

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Copyright and Industrial Objects: Aesthetic Considerations and Policy Discriminations

SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property (Matthew David & Debora Halbert, eds.) 2014, Forthcoming, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 168/2014.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources: Observing Legal Protection through the Lens of Historical Geography and Human Rights

[2019] 58 Washburn Law Journal 399-447, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 286/2018
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen
University of Leeds and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Creativity, Pluralism, and Fictitious Narratives: Understanding IP Law Through Karl Polanyi

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 381/2022; Forthcoming book chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Responding to the Global Food Fraud Crisis: What Is the Role of Intellectual Property and Trade Law?

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 378/2022; an updated version is published in The Global Community Yearbook of International Law & Jurisprudence 2020, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen
University of Leeds and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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food fraud, geographical indications, trademarks, globalisation of food, food security

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Who Owns the Orphans? Property in Digital Cultural Heritage Assets

P. Torremans, Research Handbook on Copyright Law, 2nd Edition, 2018, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham & N. H’ton, pp. 359-390, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 275/2018
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2018
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Pope versus Curll (1741) Revisited: Being a Fair and True Account of the Views of Certain well Respected Authors on Publishing, Pyracy and Propertie in the Eighteenth Century

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 341; published in "Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property", Shubha Ghosh (editor), Edward Elgar, 2020, pp.55-77 (DOI:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978712.00010)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Uma Suthersanen and Graham Dutfield
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and University of Leeds
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Copyright, Publishing, English Law, Book trade, Intangibles

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Design and Fashion: Procrustean Metaphors in Intellectual Property Law

Chapter in: E. Rosati and I. Calboli (eds), Routledge Handbook of Fashion Law, Routledge, forthcoming 2024, Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 410/2023
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Nov 2023
Maria Mercedes Frabboni and Uma Suthersanen
University of Sussex - School of Law, Politics and Sociology and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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intellectual property, law and economics, fashion design

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QMIPRI Response to the Law Commission’s Digital Assets Consultation Paper

Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 396/2022
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Nov 2022
Garry Gabison, Michaela MacDonald, Guido Westkamp and Uma Suthersanen
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London - School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) and Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Digital Assets, Property Law, Non-fungible Tokens, Information Ownership, Possession

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Copyright and Educational Policies: A Stakeholder Analysis

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 23, pp. 585-609, 2003
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Uma Suthersanen
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

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