Abstract This article focuses on the ability to protect three non-traditional signs as trade marks in EU: smell (olfactory marks), taste (gustatory marks) and feel (tactile marks). All types of subject matter can meet definition a sign. According majority view literature practice, none currently be represented register with sufficient clarity precision, however. It is argued that veracity findi...

A form of the aspect calculus hypothesized in Dowty 1979 to explain “the different aspectual properties of the various kinds of verbs” is reinterpreted by chaining segments incrementally, as in Landman 2008. Segmenting an interval brings out, it is argued, a notion of event that can be represented at bounded but variable granularities by strings of sets of temporal propositions, tracking change...