Staff Profile:Dr. Daphne Zografos

Responsibilities:

Dr. Daphne Zografos currently teaches the following courses:

  • LLB: Intellectual Property Law  
  • LLM: Intellectual Property Law; International and European Aspects of Intellectual Property Law; Contemporary Issues in International Law; The Single Market: Trade and Commercial in an Integrated Europe
Areas of Interest:
Daphne's current research interests are in the fields of trade mark law, geographical indications, traditional knowledge, and intellectual property and development.
Research groups / Centres:
Publications:
  • Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions (Edward Elgar: London, 2010)
  • Geographical Indications and Socio-Economic Development, IQsensato Working Paper 3, December 2008
  • Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in East and Southeast Asia: An Unexplored Territory? (2007) Volume 18(3) Australian Intellectual Property Journal 167-178

  • The Appropriation of American Indian Names and Images in Trade Marks: The Washington Redskins Case, in Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law and Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007)

  • The Public Interest in the Globally Sustainable Information Society: The Traditional Knowledge Debate (2006) 3 E-Learning, 488-493
  • Can Geographical Indications be a Viable Alternative for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions?, in F. Macmillan and K. Bowrey (eds.), New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 3 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006) 37-55.
  • The Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: Is Copyright the Answer?, in F. Macmillan (ed.), New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 2 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006) 181-197.
  • New Perspectives for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in New Zealand, (2005) International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Vol. 6, No. 8, 928-952.
  • Tradition v Trade Marks: The New Zealand Trade Marks Act 2002, in F. Willem Grosheide and Jan J. Brinkhof (eds.), Intellectual Property Law 2004, Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2005) 279-293.
  • The Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: The Tunisian Example, (2004) The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol. 7, No.2, 229-242.
  • Contributing editor of Domain Names: Global Policy and Procedure (Authors: S. Maniatis, J.R. Olsen, N. Wood) London, West/Sweet & Maxwell, 2000.
  • Contributing editor of Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition (Authors: S. Maniatis and J.R. Olsen) London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1996.

Recent Conference Papers:

  • IP Strategies for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions, ATRIP Conference, Individualism and Collectiveness in Intellectual Property Law, Stockholm, 23-26 May 2010.
  • Using Intellectual Property Rights to Create Value in the Coffee Industry.  Case Studies from Indonesia and Vietnam, 6th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day: Recent IP Law Developments in Asia, New York, 7 April 2010.
  • Geographical Indications and Socio-Economic Development, 4th European Intellectual Property Institutes Network Conference, Zurich, April 2008.
  • The Protection of Maori Words and Imagery through the Trade Mark Registration System, Roundtable on the Regulation of Intellectual Property and Cultural Diversity: The Case for 'Visual Art', London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise and Queen Mary, London, April 2008.
  • Geographical Indications: An opportunity for Asia? In: 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day: The Developing Legal Ecosystem for IP in Asia, IP Academy, Singapore and Fordham University, New York, April 2008.
  • Geographical Indications: The Repatriation of Generic Terms and the Feta Cheese Saga, 4th International Conference on Industrial Organisation, Economics and Law, Athens, 16-17 July 2007.
  • Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in East and Souteast Asia: An Unexplored Territory?, 4th Annual Fordham - IPA Asian IP Law and Policy Day: The Future of IP in Asia - Bridging the East West Divide?, New York, 11 April 2007.
  • Geographical Indications, Bud by Another Name (with Prof Spyros Maniatis), Free Trade, Competition and the Enforcement of IP in a Global Economy, Universiteit Maastricht, 19-20 May 2005.
  • The Public Interest in the Globally Sustainable Information Society, Conference on Policy Options and Models for Bridging Digital Divides, Tampere, 14-15 March 2005.
  • Can Geographical Indications be a Viable Alternative for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions?, AHRB Copyright Research Network Workshop, London, 28 February 2005.
  • The New Zealand Trade Marks Act 2002 and the Toi Iho Certification Mark, ATRIP Conference, Utrecht, 26-28 July 2004.
  • The Legal Protection of Folklore: Is Copyright the Answer?, AHRB Copyright Research Network Conference, London, 29-30 June 2004.
Qualifications:
Licence en Droit (Université de Lausanne), LL.M. (University College London), Ph.D. (Queen Mary)

Biographical Details

Daphne joined the Law School as a Lecturer in September 2006. Before joining the School she was a doctoral associate and research assistant at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. Daphne wrote her thesis on "Origin Related Intellectual Property Rights as Best Policy Options for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions". She completed her PhD in 2008. Daphne specialises in intellectual property law, and in particular trade marks, geographical indications, and intellectual property and development. She is a Visiting Research Scholar at King's College London, and a member of the Board of Directors of Geneva-based research and policy think tank IQsensato. Daphne is the author of "Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions" as well as several chapters in books and journal articles. She is a contributing editor of Domain Names: Global Policy and Procedure, and Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition. She specialises in Intellectual Property Law and European Law.

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