Dev Gangjee
Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Faculty officer role(s):
Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Biography
Dev Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law within the Law Faculty and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics. Dev is a graduate of the National Law School of India and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dev's research focuses on Intellectual Property (IP), with a special emphasis on Branding and Trade Marks, Geographical Indications and Copyright law. Thematic research interests include the history and political economy of IP, collective and open innovation, the significance of registration for intangibles and rights in data. He has acted in an advisory capacity for national governments, law firms, international organisations and the European Commission on IP issues.
Besides IP, Dev has teaching interests across private law, including contract, land and tort law. He has won teaching prizes (LSE) and a student welfare award (Oxford). He is a visiting professor at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre, having taught on their LLM programme since 2010. He has held visiting fellowships at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo (2005), the IP Research Institute of Australia at UNSW (2010) and Hong Kong University (2018). Dev is presently Director of the Oxford IP Research Centre (OIPRC). He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Modern Law Review, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the open access journal Laws.
Publications
Gangjee D, “Unfair Competition: United Kingdom”
Gangjee D, “Unfair Competition: India”
Gangjee D, “A Quotidian Revolution: Artificial Intelligence and Trade Mark Law”
Gangjee D, “The Data Producer’s Right: An Instructive Obituary”
White M, Mogyoros A and Gangjee D, “Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre Submission: IPO Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Call for Views - Trade Marks”
Gangjee D, “Sui Generis or Independent Geographical Indications Protection”
Gangjee D, “Trade Marks and Innovation?”
Gangjee D, “Eye, Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Trade Mark Registers”
Gangjee D, “Trade Marks and Allied Rights”
Gangjee D, “GIs Beyond Wine: Time to Rethink the Link?” (2017) 48 IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 129
Gangjee D, “Copyright Formalities: A Return to Registration?”
Dinwoodie G and Gangjee D, “The Image of the Consumer in European Trade Mark Law” (2016) 21 Images of The Consumer In EU Law, Legislation, Free Movement And Competition Law 339
Gangjee D, “Proving Provenance? Geographical Indications Certification and Its Ambiguities” (2015) 98 World Development 12
Gangjee D, “Constructing European Intellectual Property: Achievements and New Perspectives” (2014) 4 QUEEN MARY JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 244
Gangjee D, “Property in Brands” [2013] LSE Legal Studies Working Paper
Gangjee D, “Property in Brands”
Gangjee D, “Geographical Indications and Cultural Heritage” (2012) 4 WIPO Journal 92
Gangjee D, “Intellectual Property Overlaps: A European Perspective” (2012) 75 MODERN LAW REVIEW 943
Gangjee D, “Cultural Heritage and Geographical Indications” (2012) 4 WIPO Journal 92
Gangjee D, “Demerara Sugar: A Bitter Pill to Swallow?” (2011) 24 Intellectual Property Journal 1
Gangjee D, “Demerara Sugar: A Bitter Pill to Swallow?” (2011) 24 Intellectual Property Journal 41640
Higgins D and Gangjee D, “‘Trick or Treat?’ The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain During the Late Nineteenth Century” (2010) 11 ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY 203
Higgins D and Gangjee D, “‘Trick or Treat?’ The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain During the Late Nineteenth Century” (2010) 11 Enterprise & Society 203
Gangjee D and Burrell R, “Because You’re Worth It: L’Oreal and the Prohibition on Free Riding” (2010) 73 MODERN LAW REVIEW 282
Gangjee D, “Non-Conventional Trade Marks in India” (2010) 22 National Law School of India Review 67
Burrell R and Gangjee D, “Trade Marks and Freedom of Expression - A Call for Caution” (2010) 41 IIC-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW 544
Burrell R and Gangjee D, “A Brief Note on L’Oreal and the Prohibition on Free Riding” [2009] University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law Research Paper
Gangjee D, “The Polymorphism of Trademark Dilution in India” (2008) 17 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
Gangjee D, “Quibbling Siblings: Conflicts Between Trade Marks and GIs” (2007) 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1253
Gangjee D, “Quibbling Siblings: Conflicts Between Trademarks and Geographical Indications” (2007) 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review
Gangjee D, “Say Cheese! A Sharper Image of Generic Use Through the Lens of Feta” (2007) 5 European Intellectual Property Review
Gangjee D, “Melton Mowbray and the GI Pie in the Sky: Exploring Cartographies of Protection” (2006) 3 Intellectual Property Quarterly 291
“Proving Provenance? Geographical Indications Certification and Its Ambiguities” (2015) 98 World Development 12
Bently L, Sherman B, Gangjee D and Johnson P, Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press 2022)
Simon Fhima I and Gangjee D, The Confusion Test in European Trade Mark Law (OUP 2019)
Gangjee D, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications (2016) 1
Gangjee D, Introduction: Timeless Signs or Signs of the Times? (2016) 1
Gangjee D, Relocating the Law of Geographical Indications (2012) 1
Gangjee D, “Making a Place for Place-Based IP: WIPO and Geographical Indications”, Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization: the First 50 Years and beyond (2020)
Gangjee D, “Champagne”, A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (2019)
Gangjee D, “Champagne” in C Op Den Kamp and D Hunter (eds.), A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (CUP 2019)
Gangjee D, “Paying the Price for Admission: Non-Traditional Marks across Registration and Enforcement”, The Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks: Critical Perspectives (2019)
Gangjee D, “Trade Mark Dilution in India” in D Bereskin (ed.), International Trademark Dilution (Thomson Reuters 2017)
GANGJEE D, “From Geography to History: Geographical Indications and the Reputational Link”, Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Gangjee D, “Geographical Indications and Cultural Rights: The Intangible Cultural Heritage Connection?”, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property (2015)
Gangjee D, “Property in Brands: The Commodiication of Conversation”, Concepts of Property in Intellectual Property Law (2012)
Gangjee D, “Copyright: India” in P E Geller (ed.), International Copyright Law and Practice (Lexis: Matthew Bender- 2012)
Gangjee D, “Overlaps Between Trade Marks and Geographical Indications” in N Wilkoff and S Basheer (eds.), Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (OUP, Oxford 2012)
Gangjee D, “The Business End of Collective and Certification Marks”, TRADE MARK LAW AND SHARING NAMES: EXPLORING USE OF THE SAME MARK BY MULTIPLE UNDERTAKINGS (2009)
Gangjee D, “Geographical Indications and Human Rights” in P Torremans (ed.), Intellectual Property and Human Rights (Kluwer, The Hague 2008)
Gangjee D, “(Re) Locating Geographical Indications: A Response to Bronwyn Parry”, TRADE MARKS AND BRANDS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CRITIQUE (2008)
Gangjee D, “Spanish Champagne: An Unfair Competition Approach to GI Protection”, Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP (2005)
GANGJEE D, “Genericide: The Death of a Geographical Indication?”, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications (Edward Elgar)