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The Impact Of Pro-Football Inc. V. Harjo On Trademark Protection Of Other Marks, Rachel Clark Hughey

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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The Trademark Jurisprudence Of The Rehnquist Court, Graeme B. Dinwoodie

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

Professor Dinwoodie discusses the Rehnquist Supreme Court and its current approach to addressing trademark jurisprudence. Professor Dinwoodie concludes that although the Court has not employed a consistent methodological approach to resolving trademark problems, the opinions do suggest that there are certain values that dictate the outcomes in trademark cases before the Rehnquist Court.

What Are You Looking At? Eliminating Consideration Of The General Public And The Ultimate Question In A Trade Dress Initial Interest Confusion Analysis., Paul J. Krause

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

This comment addresses the concept of initial interest confusion in trade dress law and examines several different courts' approaches to the doctrine. Through the discussion, it becomes evident that while being careful to avoid bypassing an analysis of the likelihood of confusion factors, courts should also use the doctrine to determine confusion of potential purchasers. Failing to account for certain factors, such as the sophistication of the relevant consumer group, may allow courts to skew the likelihood of confusion factors in an initial interest confusion analysis. In sum, the author argues that courts should conduct a thorough analysis of likelihood …

Vol. Ix, Tab 41 - Ex 6 - Google Three Ad Policy Changes, 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?

Genericness Doctrine Need Not Apply: Employing Generic Domain Names In Cyberspace., C. Kim Lee

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Protection For Indigenous Peoples And Their Traditional Knowledge: Would A Registry System Reduce The Misappropriation Of Traditional Knowledge?, Thomas J, Krumenacher

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

This Comment examines the controversy over whether a registry system is the best way to prevent Western inventors from obtaining intellectual property protection for traditional knowledge that has been misappropriated from underdeveloped parts of the world. This dilemma exists because traditional knowledge often constitutes patentable subject matter, most indigenous peoples do not subscribe to a Western "property rights" view of the world, and exploitation of traditional knowledge has become easier through improved communication capabilities. This Comment argues in favor of a registry system to catalog traditional knowledge; patent examiners would deny patent protection to any invention that replicates traditional knowledge. …

Market Definition In Intellectual Property Law: Should Intellectual Property Courts Use An Antitrust Approach To Market Definition?, Anna F. Kingsbury

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

In her Article, Ms. Kingsbury notes that American courts do not use antitrust law's market definition approach in intellectual property cases. She discusses five potential rationales for this dichotomy: (1) intellectual property cases involve new products without defined markets; (2) market definition limits judicial flexibility; (3) courts do not want to burden intellectual property litigants with the time and expense of economic evidence; (4) judges reason from precedent, and that precedent did not consider market definition; and (5) "market" conveys a different meaning in intellectual property law than it does in antitrust law. Kingsbury presents counterarguments to these rationales and …

The Community Trademark System: A Brief Introduction And Overview, Vincent O'Reilly

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

Mr. O'Reilly discusses several different aspects of the trademark system in the European Community. The following subjects are included in his survey: (1) application; (2) opposition; (3) cancellation; (4) appeals; and (5) enforcement. Though formal and procedural requirements dominate this discussion, O'Reilly also discusses how these requirements have been applied and how traditional trademark issues have been resolved with regard to particular trademarks. He also discusses how the Community Trademark System interacts with the preexisting national trademark systems.

Trade Dress: Should Only The Secondary Meaning Trade Dress Standard Apply To Product Packaging? Or Should Courts Continue To Use The Inherently Distinctive Standard?, Jennifer L. Barwinski

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

This Comment discusses the controversy over whether secondary meaning should be a prerequisite for trademark protection of product packaging, in light of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros. The United States Supreme Court held in Wal-Mart that secondary meaning is a prerequisite for trademark protection of product design, limiting its earlier decision in Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. In discussing Wal-Mart's application to trademark protection for product packaging, this Comment focuses on the difficulty of distinguishing between product packaging and product design. This Comment argues that secondary meaning should be a prerequisite for trademark protection of product packaging; …

Panel I: Trademark Dilution: Moseley And Beyond., Ceceelia Dempsy, Marie Driscoll, Hugh C. Hansen, Susan Progoff

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Plus Ça Change. . . . How A French Court May Have Changed Internet Advertising Forever: Google France Fined For Selling Trademarked "Keywords", Brett August

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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An Efficient Way To Improve Patent Quality For Plant Varieties, Katherine E. White

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Nationalizing Trademarks: A New International Trademark Jurisprudence?, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Articles

A new international trademark jurisprudence is currently in formation that has negative impact on international trade. Indeed, this new trademark jurisprudence includes the recent phenomenon of states monopolizing the use of generic names through the elevation of such names to trademarks of national stature and the rise of global recognition and registration of geographic indication status for generic names. Professor Nguyen identifies and analyzes the new trademark jurisprudence, and critiques its impact on international trade relations and language propertization. Professor Nguyen proposes a certification mark regime to end the expansion of generic name protection and to promote fair competition.

Bankrupting Trademarks, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Articles

The explosive growth of technology in the last two decades has vastly expanded intellectual property jurisprudence and elevated intellectual property to a heightened status in the marketplace. Indeed, a company's intellectual property assets may now be its most valuable corporate assets. Moreover, the property value of some trademarks is significantly greater than that of the trademark owner's physical assets.

The term “intellectual property” is commonly understood to include patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks. Yet a paradigm has been constructed and enforced over the last fifteen years wherein only patents, trade secrets, and copyrights are included. The paradigm specifically excludes …

The Case For Registering Patents And The Law And Economics Of Present Patent-Obtaining Rules, F. Scott Kieff

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

(Note: this is a substantially revised version of Harvard Olin Working Paper No. 415 of May 2003, SSRN Abstract ID No. 392202 (http://ssrn.com/abstract=392202) and includes more detailed discussion of issues including the DOE, willfulness and the Knorr decision, and the FTC Report on patents and antitrust.)

Critics of the patent system suggest the rules for determining patentability should be stricter, subjecting patents to more scrutiny during Patent Office examination. This Article offers a counterintuitive model system under which patent applications are registered, not examined, to elucidate a new normative view that sees present positive law rules for obtaining patents as …

Contrived Conflicts: The Supreme Court Versus The Basics Of Intellectual Property Law, F. Scott Kieff

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Asked by conference organizers to consider the impact of the Supreme Court on intellectual property this millennium, this essay offers the view that the Supreme Court's intellectual property decisions by its present members generally are premised upon what may be viewed as contrived conflicts among bodies of law. Proceeding from this faulty foundation, the Court's efforts to resolve those conflicts subsequently have generated bodies of judge-made law that frustrate in important ways the basic statutory framework of intellectual property law. Examples of cases employing this problematic approach include Bonito Boats, Dastar, Warner-Jenkinson, Festo, TrafFix, and Holmes. Avoiding the contrivances not …

The Basics Matter: At The Periphery Of Intellectual Property, F. Scott Kieff, Troy A. Paredes

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Controversies often arise at the interfaces where intellectual property ("IP") law meets other topics in law and economics, such as property law, contract law, and antitrust law. Participants in the debates over how to mediate these interfaces often view each interface as a special case deserving unique treatment under the law. The doctrines of copyright and patent misuse are cases in point: they graft select antitrust principles onto copyright or patent law, even though there is an entirely distinct body of law - antitrust law - designed to deal with the putative concerns about competition that allegedly give rise to …

The Case Against Copyright: A Comparative Institutional Analysis Of Intellectual Property Regimes, F. Scott Kieff

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Contemporary debates over intellectual property ("IP") generally evidence positions that appear to line up at opposite ends of the same axis, with one side arguing for more rights for IP owners under each major regime - patent, trademark, and copyright - and the other side arguing for fewer. Approaching from what some may see as a "more" IP view, this paper offers the counterintuitive suggestion to consider abolishing one of these IP regimes - copyright, at least with respect to the entertainment industry, which represents one of that regime's most commercially significant users. This realization is in fact consistent with …