Lessons by Subject Outline - Trademark
- 1. Types of Marks
- 1.1. Policy & Overview
- 1.2. Service marks
- 1.3. Certification & collection marks
- 2. Subject Matter of a Mark
- 2.1. Word & General Overview
- 2.2. Design Marks & Composite Marks
- 2.3. Trade Dress (including Product Configuration)
- 2.4. Non-traditional marks (color, sound, fragrance)
- 2.5. Functionality
- 3. Distinctiveness
- 3.1. Inherently Distinctive, Descriptive, & Generic Terms
- 3.2. Acquired Distinctiveness through Secondary Meaning
- 3.3. Surnames & Foreign Words
- 3.4. Geographic Marks
- 4. Prior Use as a Bar to Registration
- 4.1. Determining "prior use" in USA and foreign
- 5. Creation and Scope of Exclusive Rights
- 5.1. Overview of Use
- 5.2. Geographic scope of rights
- 5.3. Competing goods & related goods and scope of protection
- 5.4. First Sale & Exhaustion
- 6. Ownership
- 6.1. Initial ownership
- 6.2. Abandonment by non-use
- 6.3. Assignment and Licensing
- 7. Registration and Related Rights
- 7.1. Process of Registration
- 7.1.1. Actual Use (§ 1(a))
- 7.1.2. Intent to Use (§ 1(b))
- 7.1.3. Principal & Supplemental Register
- 7.1.4. Concurrent registration (§ 2(d))
- 7.1.5. Bars to Registration
- 7.1.6. Opposition
- 7.1.7. Effects or Ramifications of Registration
- 7.2. Maintenance of Registration
- 7.2.1. Section 8
- 7.2.2. Renewal
- 7.3. Benefits of Registration
- 7.3.1. Incontestability
- 7.3.2. Constructive Use
- 7.3.3. Presumptions from Registration
- 7.4. Cancellation - See Remedies
- 7.1. Process of Registration
- 8. Infringement
- 8.1. Likelihood of confusion
- 8.2. Initial Interest Confusion
- 8.3. Post- Sale Confusion
- 8.4. Confusion as to Endorsement, Sponsorship or Association
- 8.5. Reverse Confusion
- 8.6. Contributory and Vicarious Infringement
- 8.7. Defenses
- 8.7.1. Fair and Nominative Use
- 8.7.2. First Amendment
- 8.7.3. Valid license
- 8.7.4. Statute of limitations
- 8.7.5. Acquiescence
- 8.7.6. Laches
- 8.7.7. Unclean hands
- 9. Remedies
- 9.1. Injunctions
- 9.2. Damages & Profits
- 9.3. Seizures & Destruction of Goods
- 9.4. Cancellation
- 10. Counterfeiting
- 11. Dilution
- 11.1. What is Dilution?
- 11.2. Eligibility
- 11.3. Proving Dilution
- 11.4. Defenses & Remedies
- 12. Cybersquatting
- 13. International Aspects
- European Union Trademark Basics (TM26)
- Trademarks in the European Union: Advanced Topics (TM27)
- 13.1. Section 44
- 13.2. Madrid
- 13.3. Extraterritoriality
- 13.4. Grey Market Imports
- 13.5. Rights Made Under Treaties
- 13.5.1. TRIPS
- 13.5.2. NAFTA
- 13.6. Rights under Foreign Laws
