Required
Materials
I
will use the Third Edition of the casebook by Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis entitled Trademarks
and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy and the 2011-2012 Supplement for that casebook. (Please do not purchase
earlier editions of the casebook or supplement.)
Reading
Assignments
Part
I - Foundations and Purposes of Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
1. Introduction to Trademark and Unfair Competition
Law
8/22:
Pages 3-41 of the casebook ("CB")
Part II - Creation of Trademark Rights
2. Distinctiveness
8/24: CB 45-68
8/29: CB 68-77
8/31: CB 77-97; Supp. 4-14 (Amazing
Spaces)
9/5:
Labor Day Holiday - no class
9/7: CB 97-123
9/12: CB 123-45
9/14: CB 145-55; Supp. 15-19 (notes &
Universal)
3. Functionality
9/14: CB 157-68
9/19: CB 168-76
9/21: CB 176-78, 195-214; Supp. 21-26 (Franco)
9/26: Supp. 26-36 (Specialized,
Erbe, and notes); CB 214-27
4. Use
9/28: CB 227-46
10/3: CB 247-66, 277-83
10/5: CB 283-315
10/10: CB 309-15; Write and turn in essay response to Question 1 on 2009
Exam
5.
Registration
10/10: CB 317-27
10/12: CB 327-47
10/17: CB 347-70
10/19: CB 370-79
Part III - Scope and Enforcement
of Trademark Rights
6. Geographic Limits on Trademark Rights
10/19: CB 383-92
10/24: CB 329-99
7. Confusion-Based Trademark Liability Theories
10/24: CB 459-75
10/26: CB 475-504, Supp. 51-55 (Fleischer)
10/31: CB 505-46
11/2: CB 546-567
11/7: CB 567-607
8. Non-Confusion-Based Trademark
Liability Theories
11/9: CB 609-45
11/14: Supp. 61-65, CB 646-56, Supp. 66-71
11/16: CB
656-62, CB 694-702
9. Permissible Uses of Another's Trademarks
11/16: CB 703-18
11/21: Supp. 81-87, CB 718-38, Supp. 88-97
11/23: Wednesday before Thanksgiving -
no class
11/28:
CB 764-801
11/29,
2:30-3:30: Optional Review Session: Answer the last three questions from the 2009 Trademark Exam (posted on the Course Materials
page of TWEN)
11/30:
CB 809-16, 833-34, 862-71
