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Full-Text Articles in Law
An Empirical Examination Of Consumer Survey Use In Trademark Litigation, Katie Brown Ph.D, Natasha T. Brison, Paul Batista
An Empirical Examination Of Consumer Survey Use In Trademark Litigation, Katie Brown Ph.D, Natasha T. Brison, Paul Batista
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
This Article is a comprehensive examination of the use of consumer surveys in trademark litigation cases at the federal level. Previous research has shown consumer surveys can be critical to the outcome of trademark litigation, as they measure the idiosyncratic mental associations and reactions of prospective consumers. For this Article, this study examined 843 trademark infringement and dilution cases spanning 2007 to 2017. The findings reveal consumer surveys are not utilized in trademark litigation as often as research suggests they should be. While consumer surveys are not required in trademark litigation, nor necessarily easy or inexpensive to com- mission, this …
The Trademark Dilution Revision Act's Nullifying Effect On Famous Mark Holder's Dilution Claims, Kathleen Bodenbach
The Trademark Dilution Revision Act's Nullifying Effect On Famous Mark Holder's Dilution Claims, Kathleen Bodenbach
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This comment will address how the TDRA has left famous mark holders, particularly high-end fashion house Louis Vuitton, with little in its arsenal to prevent others from mocking and devaluing its marks despite its worthy efforts. Part II addresses the relationship between trademark infringement, dilution, and parody. Part III takes a closer look at fashion giant Louis Vuitton’s strides to protect its famous marks and the courts’ differing approaches to assessing whether a parody exists. Part III also addresses the relationship between parody when it does and does not operate as a designation of source. Part IV offers a discussion …
Trademark Morality, Mark Bartholomew
Trademark Morality, Mark Bartholomew
Mark Bartholomew
This Article challenges the modern rationale for trademark rights. According to both judges and legal scholars, what matters in adjudicating trademark cases are the economic consequences, particularly for consumers, of a defendant’s use of a mark, not the use’s morality. Nevertheless, under this utilitarian facade, there are also at work judicial assessments of highly charged questions of right and wrong. Recent findings in the field of moral psychology demonstrate the influence of particular moral triggers in all areas of human decisionmaking, often operating without conscious awareness. These triggers influence judges deciding trademark disputes. A desire to punish bad actors, particularly …
The Federal Trademark Dilution Act And Its Effect On Parody: No Laughing Matter, Natalie A. Dopson
The Federal Trademark Dilution Act And Its Effect On Parody: No Laughing Matter, Natalie A. Dopson
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Sunbeam Products, Inc V. The West Bend Co.: Exposing The Malign Application Of The Federal Dilution Statute To Product Configurations, Paul Heald
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Trademarks Ride Into The Wild West Of The Internet: A Landmark Ruling Of Cyber Infringement In The Comp Examiner Agency, Inc. V. Juris, Inc., Kimberley J. Hale
Trademarks Ride Into The Wild West Of The Internet: A Landmark Ruling Of Cyber Infringement In The Comp Examiner Agency, Inc. V. Juris, Inc., Kimberley J. Hale
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Dilution, An Idea Whose Time Has Gone; Brand Equity As Protectable Property, The New/Old Paradigm, Jerre B. Swann, Theodore H. Davis Jr.
Dilution, An Idea Whose Time Has Gone; Brand Equity As Protectable Property, The New/Old Paradigm, Jerre B. Swann, Theodore H. Davis Jr.
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
"Leave Little Guys Alone!": Protecting Small Businesses From Overly Litigious Corporations And Trademark Infringement Suits, Sara Marie Andrzejewski
"Leave Little Guys Alone!": Protecting Small Businesses From Overly Litigious Corporations And Trademark Infringement Suits, Sara Marie Andrzejewski
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Trademark Law And The Prickly Ambivalence Of Post-Parodies, Charles E. Colman
Trademark Law And The Prickly Ambivalence Of Post-Parodies, Charles E. Colman
Charles E. Colman
This Essay examines what I call "post-parodies" in apparel. This emerging genre of do-it-yourself fashion is characterized by the appropriation and modification of third-party trademarks — not for the sake of dismissively mocking or zealously glorifying luxury fashion, but rather to engage in more complex forms of expression. I examine the cultural circumstances and psychological factors giving rise to post-parodic fashion, and conclude that the sensibility causing its proliferation is one grounded in ambivalence. Unfortunately, current doctrine governing trademark parodies cannot begin to make sense of post-parodic goods; among other shortcomings, that doctrine suffers from crude analytical tools and a …
Quiet On Set! We Have A Trademark To Sell, Brittany Robbins
Quiet On Set! We Have A Trademark To Sell, Brittany Robbins
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Dilution At The Patent And Trademark Office, Jeremy N. Sheff
Dilution At The Patent And Trademark Office, Jeremy N. Sheff
Faculty Publications
This Article undertakes the first systematic investigation of trademark dilution in registration practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The Article consists of three distinct descriptive empirical analyses. In the first, I present a new hand-coded dataset of all 453 Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dispositions of dilution claims through June 30, 2014, and report that dilution has been necessary to the PTO’s refusal of exactly three registrations in over a decade. In the second part, I apply algorithmic coding of the recently released PTO Casefiles Dataset to demonstrate that concurrent registration of identical marks to different …
Trademark Morality, Mark Bartholomew
Trademark Morality, Mark Bartholomew
Journal Articles
This Article challenges the modern rationale for trademark rights. According to both judges and legal scholars, what matters in adjudicating trademark cases are the economic consequences, particularly for consumers, of a defendant’s use of a mark, not the use’s morality. Nevertheless, under this utilitarian facade, there are also at work judicial assessments of highly charged questions of right and wrong. Recent findings in the field of moral psychology demonstrate the influence of particular moral triggers in all areas of human decisionmaking, often operating without conscious awareness. These triggers influence judges deciding trademark disputes. A desire to punish bad actors, particularly …
Trademark Law Harmonization In The European Union: Twenty Years Back And Forth, William Robinson, Giles Pratt, Ruth Kelly
Trademark Law Harmonization In The European Union: Twenty Years Back And Forth, William Robinson, Giles Pratt, Ruth Kelly
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Sex Exceptionalism In Intellectual Property, Jennifer E. Rothman
Sex Exceptionalism In Intellectual Property, Jennifer E. Rothman
All Faculty Scholarship
The state regulates sexual activity through a combination of criminal and civil sanctions and the award of benefits, such as marriage and First Amendment protections, for acts and speech that conform with the state’s vision of acceptable sex. Although the penalties for non-compliance with the state’s vision of appropriate sex are less severe in intellectual property law than those, for example, in criminal or family law, IP law also signals the state’s views of sex. In this Article written for the Stanford symposium on the Adult Entertainment industry, I extend my consideration of the law’s treatment of sex after Lawrence …
Vol. Xv, Tab 52 - Rosetta Stone's Reply Brief In Support Of Its Motion For Partial Summary Judgment As To Liability, Rosetta Stone
Vol. Xv, Tab 52 - Rosetta Stone's Reply Brief In Support Of Its Motion For Partial Summary Judgment As To Liability, Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Vol. Xix, Tab 56 - Rosetta Stone's Reply Brief In Support Of Its Motion For Partial Summary Judgment As To Liability, Rosetta Stone
Vol. Xix, Tab 56 - Rosetta Stone's Reply Brief In Support Of Its Motion For Partial Summary Judgment As To Liability, Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Vol. Ix, Tab 44 - Rosetta Stone's Opposition To Google's Motion For Summary Judgment, Rosetta Stone
Vol. Ix, Tab 44 - Rosetta Stone's Opposition To Google's Motion For Summary Judgment, Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Vol. Xvii, Tab 54 - Google's Reply Motion In Further Support Of Its Motion For Summary Judgment, Google
Vol. Xvii, Tab 54 - Google's Reply Motion In Further Support Of Its Motion For Summary Judgment, Google
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Vol. Xiii, Tab 50 - Google's Opposition To Rosetta Stone's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, Google
Vol. Xiii, Tab 50 - Google's Opposition To Rosetta Stone's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, Google
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Protection And Enforcement Of Well-Known Mark Rights In China: History, Theory And Future, Jing "Brad" Luo, Shubha Ghosh
Protection And Enforcement Of Well-Known Mark Rights In China: History, Theory And Future, Jing "Brad" Luo, Shubha Ghosh
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Advertising And The Transformation Of Trademark Law, Mark Bartholomew
Advertising And The Transformation Of Trademark Law, Mark Bartholomew
Journal Articles
Despite the presence of a vigorous debate over the proper scope of trademark protection, scholars have largely ignored study of trademark law's origins. It would be a mistake, however, to ignore the history behind trademark law. Scrutiny of the formative era in American trademark law yields two important conclusions. First, courts granted robust legal protection to trademark holders in the early twentieth century because they accepted the benign view of advertising presented to them by advertisers. As advertising became linked to cultural progress and social cohesion, courts adopted doctrinal revisions to protect advertising's value that remain embedded in modern trademark …
Identical Cousins? On The Road With Dilution And The Right Of Publicity, Mary Lafrance
Identical Cousins? On The Road With Dilution And The Right Of Publicity, Mary Lafrance
Scholarly Works
The dilution doctrine and the right of publicity have a great deal in common, because both represent property-like rights that have evolved from legal doctrines largely unrelated to property concerns. Although both doctrines have engendered controversy in the United States, the dilution doctrine generally evokes greater skepticism and confusion. This Article evaluates how these concepts are viewed in a number of jurisdictions outside the United States. From this examination, two conclusions emerge. First, despite the similarities between the doctrines, countries do not tend to adopt or reject them in tandem. Second, the degree to which each doctrine achieves widespread and …
The Other Famous Marks Doctrine, Xuan-Thao Nguyen
The Other Famous Marks Doctrine, Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Articles
Debates on protection for famous trademarks often center around state and federal antidilution laws. Both the old Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 and the new Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 have generated many law review articles and numerous symposia. The dilution law focuses on trademarks deemed famous within U.S. boundaries. A debate on protection for famous trademarks today is incomplete without a discussion of the other famous marks doctrine. The other famous marks doctrine recognizes marks famous in other countries without actual use in the country where a user adopts the trademark on similar goods and services.
In …
No Reason To Live: Dilution Laws As Unconstitutional Restrictions On Commercial Speech, Mary Lafrance
No Reason To Live: Dilution Laws As Unconstitutional Restrictions On Commercial Speech, Mary Lafrance
Scholarly Works
Traditionally, trademark and unfair competition laws have protected trademark owners against unauthorized uses of their marks that are likely to confuse or mislead consumers about the origin of goods or services. If a particular use is not likely to confuse or mislead, then it is not actionable under traditional infringement regimes. When applied to commercial speech, as opposed to noncommercial expression, traditional trademark and unfair competition laws generally have survived scrutiny under the First Amendment, because these laws restrict only commercial speech that is false or misleading.
Dilution laws, however, do not restrict speech that is false or misleading. Dilution …
The (Boundedly) Rational Basis Of Trademark Liability, Jeremy N. Sheff
The (Boundedly) Rational Basis Of Trademark Liability, Jeremy N. Sheff
Faculty Publications
This article argues that trademark infringement and dilution are best understood as commercial behavior that manipulates the cognitive biases of consumers, and as such threatens to render their heuristic judgments persistently inaccurate. In this view, trademark liability—whether imposed under the label of infringement or dilution—serves neither to protect property rights of trademark owners, nor to protect them against the unfair trade practices of competitors, but to shape consumer markets in such a way as to conform to the innate cognitive processes of boundedly rational consumers. The trademark regime can thus be understood as a legal apparatus designed (albeit perhaps unconsciously) …
Why We Are Confused About The Trademark Dilution Law, Christine Farley
Why We Are Confused About The Trademark Dilution Law, Christine Farley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
In the decade following passage of a federal right of anti-dilution, the biggest question in trademark law was how to prove dilution. This is a clear sign of something. Can no smart attorney, judge, or social scientist figure out what dilution is in order to prove it? Dilution has proven to be a "dauntingly elusive concept" for the courts. Even in the Supreme Court, nearly all of the questions from the Justices In oral argument in Moseley v. V. Secret Catalog were seeking to simply understand what dilution is.Unless they simply know it when they see it, other courts either …
Steam Shovels And Lipstick: Trademarks, Greed, And The Public Domain, Mary Lafrance
Steam Shovels And Lipstick: Trademarks, Greed, And The Public Domain, Mary Lafrance
Scholarly Works
Although the law of trademarks and unfair competition at one time concerned itself only with false designations of origin that were likely to confuse consumers about the origin of goods or services, with the emergence of the dilution doctrine during the twentieth century individual states--and ultimately Congress--began offering the owners of particularly strong marks the opportunity to prevent others from using these marks even in ways which were unlikely to lead to consumer confusion. In so doing, the law began to treat trademarks as property in themselves--the product of a trademark owner's investment in good will--rather than merely as signals …
Trademark Dilution In Japan, Kenneth L. Port
Trademark Dilution In Japan, Kenneth L. Port
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future, Mark D. Janis, Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future, Mark D. Janis, Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Steam Shovels And Lipstick: Trademarks, Greed, And The Public Domain, Mary Lafrance
Steam Shovels And Lipstick: Trademarks, Greed, And The Public Domain, Mary Lafrance
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.