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Lego – Building a European Concept of Functionality
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Whither European Trade Mark Law? Arsenal and Davidoff: The Creative Disorder Stage
Professor Maniatis focuses on recent case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to illustrate the present disorderly state of European trade mark law. With the advent of the Community Trade Mark within the European Union, the ECJ is in the process of shaping a new body of trade mark precedent that will influence both national registration laws and future legislative developments in trade mark and unfair competition law. The author proposes that this new course should be guided by basic principles of trade mark law rather than by compromise between adverse historical and national systems. The Article gives a history of the legislative framework behind the Community Trade Mark to set up a discussion of the ECJ\u27s jurisprudence on trade mark law. Maniatis analyzes judicial treatment of relevant doctrines, including distinctiveness, graphic representation, functionality, likelihood of association, and mark reputation
Introduction and Expression of a Rabbit β-globin Gene in Mouse Fibroblasts
The cloned chromosomal rabbit ß-globin gene has been introduced into mouse fibroblasts by DNA-mediated gene transfer (transformation). In this report, we examine the expression of the rabbit gene in six independent transformants that contain from 1 to 20 copies of the cloned globin gene. Rabbit globin transcripts were detected in two of these transformants at steady-state concentrations of 5 and 2 copies per cell. The globin transcripts from one cell line are polyadenylylated and migrate as 9S RNA on methylmercury gels. These transcripts reflect correct processing of the two intervening sequences but lack 48 ± 5 nucleotides present at the 5' terminus of rabbit erythrocyte globin mRNA
A new type of CP symmetry, family replication and fermion mass hierarchies
We study a two-Higgs-doublet model with four generalised CP symmetries in the
scalar sector. Electroweak symmetry breaking leads automatically to spontaneous
breaking of two of them. We require that these four CP symmetries can be
extended from the scalar sector to the full Lagrangian and call this
requirement the principle of maximal CP invariance. The Yukawa interactions of
the fermions are severely restricted by this requirement. In particular, a
single fermion family cannot be coupled to the Higgs fields. For two fermion
families, however, this is possible. Enforcing the absence of flavour-changing
neutral currents, we find degenerate masses in both families or one family
massless and one massive. In the latter case the Lagrangian is highly
symmetric, with the mass hierarchy being generated by electroweak symmetry
breaking. Adding a third family uncoupled to the Higgs fields and thus keeping
it massless we get a model which gives a rough approximation of some features
of the fermions observed in Nature. We discuss a number of predictions of the
model which may be checked in future experiments at the LHC.Comment: 24 pages. Version published in EPJC. Minor changes as suggested by
the refere
CP properties of symmetry-constrained two-Higgs-doublet models
The two-Higgs-doublet model can be constrained by imposing Higgs-family
symmetries and/or generalized CP symmetries. It is known that there are only
six independent classes of such symmetry-constrained models. We study the CP
properties of all cases in the bilinear formalism. An exact symmetry implies CP
conservation. We show that soft breaking of the symmetry can lead to
spontaneous CP violation (CPV) in three of the classes.Comment: 14 pages, 2 tables, revised version adapted to the journal
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NF-kappaB signaling pathways in mammalian and insect innate immunity
In this review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the signaling pathways in mammalian and Drosophila innate immunity, with emphasis on the mechanisms by which NF-kappaB/Rel family proteins are activated
Effective Two Higgs Doublets in Nonminimal Supersymmetric Models
The Higgs sectors of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model have two
doublets in the minimal version (MSSM), and two doublets plus a singlet in two
others: with (UMSSM) and without (NMSSM) an extra U(1)'. A very concise
comparison of these three models is possible if we assume that the singlet has
a somewhat larger breaking scale compared to the electroweak scale. In that
case, the UMSSM and the NMSSM become effectively two-Higgs-doublet models
(THDM), like the MSSM. As expected, the mass of the lightest CP-even neutral
Higgs boson has an upper bound in each case. We find that in the NMSSM, this
bound exceeds not very much that of the MSSM, unless tan(beta) is near one.
However, the upper bound in the UMSSM may be substantially enhanced.Comment: 8 pages, 1 table, 3 figure
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