Trademark and Unfair Competition: Cases and Materials, 2008 Supplement and Statutory Appendix

by Ginsburg, Jane C.

• ISBN13: 9781599414706
• ISBN10: 1599414708
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-24
• Publisher: West Academic

Summary

The 2008 Supplement and Statutory Appendix to Ginsburg, Litman and Kevlin's Trademark and Unfair Competition, Cases and Materials, 4th Edition updates the casebook with information on important Supreme Court decisions, coverage of US adherence to the Madrid Protocol on international filing for trademark registration, and expanded materials on trademarks and the Internet.

Author Biography

Jane C. Ginsburg Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Columbia University Law School Jessica Litman Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School Mary L. Kevlin Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman, P.C. Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Law

Table of Contents

Table of Cases	p. vii
Prelude	p. 1
Top Tobacco, L.P v. North Atlantic Operating Company, Inc.	p. 1
Questions	p. 4
Concepts of Trademarks and Unfair Competition	p. 6
Trademarks	p. 6
Questions	p. 6
Ownership and Use	p. 7
Ownership	p. 7
Question	p. 8
Use	p. 8
Central Mfg. Inc. v. Brett	p. 8
Analogous Use	p. 13
Aktieselskabet AF 21. November 2001 v. Fame Jeans	p. 14
Question	p. 16
Extraterritorial Use	p. 17
Priority	p. 17
ITC Limited v. Punchgini, Inc.	p. 17
ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini	p. 23
Questions	p. 27
Registration of Trademarks	p. 28
Bars to Registration	p. 28
Loss of Trademark Rights	p. 31
Genericism	p. 31
Question	p. 32
Question	p. 36
Abandonment	p. 36
Standard of Proof of Abandonment	p. 36
Infringement	p. 40
Likelihood of Confusion	p. 40
Secondary Liability for Trademark Infringement	p. 46
Vulcan Golf, LLC v. Google Inc.	p. 46
Statutory Defenses/Incontestability	p. 49
Question	p. 49
False Designation of Origin	p. 51
Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act and Unregistered Marks	p. 51
Question	p. 51
Trade Dress	p. 51
Advertising	p. 55
False Representations	p. 55
Questions	p. 56
Dilution	p. 57
Federal Dilution	p. 57
Nike, Inc. v. Nikepal International, Inc.	p. 57
Question	p. 64
7-Eleven, Inc. v. Wechsler	p. 64
Question	p. 69
Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. v. Haute Diggity Dog, LLC	p. 69
Questions	p. 75
Authors' and Performers' Rights	p. 77
Authors' and Performers' Rights of Attribution	p. 77
Merchandizing	p. 77
Internet Domain Names	p. 79
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act	p. 79
Utah Lighthouse Ministry v. Foundation for Apologetic Information And Research	p. 79
ICANN and the Uniform Trademark Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy	p. 84
Trademarks as Speech	p. 92
Parody	p. 92
Question	p. 95
Trademarks as Speech	p. 95
Question	p. 95
Remedies	p. 97
Trademark Counterfeiting	p. 99
Question	p. 99
Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc. v. A & E Oil, Inc.	p. 99
Question	p. 102
Appendices
Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, as Amended and codified in Chapter 22 of Title 15 of the United States Code	p. 103
Restatement of the Law (Third) of Unfair Competition, [sections] 1, 9, 13, 16-17, 20-27	p. 162
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (4th edition 2005) (Excerpts)	p. 168
Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy	p. 204
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (excerpts)	p. 209
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) (excerpts)	p. 221
North American Free Trade Agreement (excerpts)	p. 230
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