Professor Lisa P. Ramsey

Trademark Law

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Fall 2009
Class Meeting Time: Tue & Thur 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Required Materials: I will use the Second Edition of the casebook by Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis entitled Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy.  The book was published in August 2007 by Aspen Publishers and the ISBN is 9780735568303.  The 2009-2010 Case and Statutory Supplement for this casebook is also required for the course and the ISBN is 9780735579347.  (Please do not purchase earlier editions of the casebook or supplement.)
  
Reading Assignments:  
8/25: Pages 3-40 of the casebook ("CB")
8/27: CB 43-63
9/1: CB 58-86; Pages 10-15 of the Supplement ("Supp") (Browne Drug, 538 F.3d 185 (3d Cir. 2008))
9/3: CB 70-99; Supp. 10-15
9/8: CB 86-113
9/10: CB 113-27, 133-36, 147-58
9/15: CB 148-68
9/17: CB 184-217
9/22: CB 206-29
9/24: Supp. 26-34 (Aycock Engineering (Fed. Cir. 2009)); CB 229-49
9/29: CB 241-49, 262-83
10/1: CB 283-312
10/6: CB 303-38
10/8: CB 326-55
10/13: CB 338-72
10/15: CB 356-88
10/20: CB 443-66
10/22: CB 474-79; Supp. 57-77 (Rescuecom (2d Cir. 2009) and notes)
10/27: CB 479-520
10/29: CB 520-55
11/3: CB 532-64
11/5: CB 564-78
11/10: Supp. 92-106 (Tiffany (SDNY 2008)); CB 578-603   
11/12: Class cancelled - makeup scheduled for 12/1 at 2:30 p.m. in WH2A
11/17: CB 600-15
11/19: CB 615-37; CB 657-58
11/24: CB 658-72; CB 680-84; CB 695-99; CB 720-25
11/26: No class - Thanksgiving
12/1 (Room WH2A): CB 725-42; Supp. 122-27 (E.S.S. Entertainment (9th Cir. 2008))
12/3: Supp. 127-40 (Louis Vuitton (4th Cir. 2007) and notes); Handout - 2 Trademark Problems based on old IP Exams (posted on documents page of TWEN)