Dev Gangjee
Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Other affiliations
Intellectual Property Discussion Group Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Biography
Dev Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law within the Law Faculty and a Law 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 and positions at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo (2005), the IP Research Institute of Australia at UNSW (2010), Hong Kong University (2018), the National University of Singapore (2022) and the University of Berne (2023). Dev is presently Director of the Oxford IP Research Centre (OIPRC). He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Modern Law Review and Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property.
Publications
Gangjee D and others, ‘<p>Open Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence</p>’
Vives-Vallés J and Gangjee D, ‘Lightning in a Bottle? Wine GIs and Disruptive Innovation’ [2025] IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Mammen C and others, ‘Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and the Requirement of Human Authors and Inventors in Copyright and Patent Law’
GANGJEE D, ‘Panoptic Brand Protection? Algorithmic Ascendancy in Online Marketplaces’ (2024) 46(7) European Intellectual Property Review 448
Gangjee D, ‘The incremental growth of unfair competition law in India’ (2024) 19(2) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 119
Gangjee D, ‘Law(s) against unfair competition: the legitimacy of the UK approach’ (2023) 19(2) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 90
Kur A and others, ‘The Need for Measures to Safeguard Undistorted Competition and Freedom of Expression in Geographical Indications Law – Opinion on the EU Commission’s Proposals for Broader Protection’
Gangjee D, ‘A quotidian revolution: Artificial intelligence and trade mark law’ 325
Gangjee D, ‘Unfair Competition: United Kingdom’
Gangjee D, ‘Unfair Competition: India’
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’ 256
Gangjee D, ‘Trade Marks and Allied Rights’
Gangjee D, ‘Copyright formalities: A return to registration?’ 213
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, ‘Book review’ (2014) 4(3) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 244
Gangjee D, ‘Property in Brands’ [2013] LSE Legal Studies Working Paper
Gangjee D, ‘Geographical Indications and Cultural Heritage’ (2012) 4 WIPO Journal 92
Gangjee D, ‘Estelle Derclaye and Matthias Leistner, Intellectual Property Overlaps: A European Perspective, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010, 406 pp, hb £70.00.’ (2012) 75(5) Modern Law Review 943
Gangjee D, ‘Cultural Heritage and Geographical Indications’ (2012) 4 WIPO Journal 92
Gangjee D, ‘A stout companion for the trade mark comparativist’ (2011) 6(5) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 348
Gangjee D, ‘Demerara Sugar: A Bitter Pill to Swallow?’ (2011) 24 Intellectual Property Journal 41640
Burrell R and Gangjee D, ‘Trade marks and freedom of expression - A call for caution’ (2010) 41(5) IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 544
Higgins D and Gangjee D, ‘“Trick or Treat?” The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain during the Late Nineteenth Century’ (2010) 11(02) Enterprise & Society 203
Gangjee D and Burrell R, ‘Because You’re Worth It: L’Oréal and the Prohibition on Free Riding’ (2010) 73(2) Modern Law Review 282
Gangjee D, ‘Non-Conventional Trade Marks in India’ (2010) 22(1) National Law School of India Review 67
Burrell R and Gangjee D, ‘A Brief Note on L’Oreal and the Prohibition on Free Riding’ [2009] (09) 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, ‘Say Cheese! A Sharper Image of Generic Use Through the Lens of Feta’ (2007) 5 European Intellectual Property Review
Gangjee D, ‘Quibbling Siblings: Conflicts between Trademarks and Geographical Indications’ (2007) 82(2) Chicago-Kent Law 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 and others, 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, Introduction: timeless signs or signs of the times? (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
Gangjee D, Research handbook on intellectual property and geographical indications (2016) 1
Gangjee D, Relocating the Law of Geographical Indications (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012)
Gangjee D, ‘Data and AI’, The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2024)
Gangjee D, ‘Threads that Last: Geographical Indications for Textiles’ (2024)
Gangjee D, ‘India’, Trademark Dilution and Free Riding (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023)
GANGJEE D, ‘A Distinctive Absence: Registrable Trade Marks in 1875’ in L Bently and R Bone (eds.), Research Handbook on the History of Trade Mark Law (Edward Elgar 2023)
Gangjee D, ‘Overlaps Between Trademarks and Geographical Indications’, Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2023)
Gangjee D, ‘The Data Producer’s Right: An Instructive Obituary’ in E Lim and P Morgan (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Gangjee D, ‘Trade marks and innovation?’ in G Dinwoodie and MD Janis (eds.), Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021)
Gangjee D, ‘Eye, Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Trade Mark Registers’, Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020)
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’ 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’ in I Calboli and M Senftleben (eds.), THE PROTECTION OF NON-TRADITIONAL MARKS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES (OUP 2018)
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)
Dinwoodie G and Gangjee D, ‘The Consumer in European Regulatory Private Law’, The Images of the Consumer in EU Law: Legislation, Free Movement and Competition Law (2016)
Gangjee D, ‘Chapter 29: Geographical indications and cultural rights: The intangible cultural heritage connection?’, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015)
Gangjee D, ‘Geographical indications and cultural rights: The intangible cultural heritage connection?’, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015)
Gangjee D, ‘Spanish Champagne: An unfair competition approach to GI protection’, Intellectual Property at the Edge (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014)
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, ‘Copyright: India’ in P E Geller (ed.), International Copyright Law and Practice (Lexis: Matthew Bender- 2012)
Gangjee D, ‘Chapter 6: The Business End of Collective and Certification Marks’, Trade Mark Law and Sharing Names (Edward Elgar Publishing 2009)
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, ‘(Re)Locating Geographical Indications: a response to Bronwyn Parry’, Trade Marks and Brands (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2008)
Gangjee D, ‘Geographical Indications and Human Rights’ in P Torremans (ed.), Intellectual Property and Human Rights (Kluwer, The Hague 2008)
GANGJEE D, ‘Genericide: The Death of a Geographical Indication?’, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Geographical Indications (Edward Elgar)
Gangjee D, ‘Book review: Jeffrey Belson, Certification and Collective Marks: Law and Practice, 2nd edn (Edward Elgar 2017) 320 pp.’ (2018) 8(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 358 (review)
Mammen C and others, ‘Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and the Requirement of Human Authors and Inventors in Copyright and Patent Law’ (9 July 2024)
Gangjee D, ‘Unfair Competition: India’ (Elsevier1 January 2022)
Gangjee D, ‘Unfair Competition: United Kingdom’ (Elsevier1 January 2022)