Law 760 Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Jessica Litman
University of Michigan Law School
Trademark material on the Web:
There is no reason why you should find it necessary to do outside reading, but you may be curious enough about particular topics to want to explore them in a little more depth. Here is a modest collection of reference sources available on the World Wide Web. Each of them includes links to further sources, some of which are more reliable than others. Don't believe everything you read.
Trademark General Reference
- The Lanham Act
- United States Patent &
Trademark Office
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure [TMEP] (July 2022)
- Trademark Examination Guides
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP) (June 2023)
- U.S.P.T.O. Trademark Electronic Search System [TESS]
- New trademark search system (beta release)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System [TTABVUE]
- The Trademark Official Gazette
- Trademark Information Network videos
- Data Visualization Center Trademarks Dashboard
- Federal Trade Commission
- International Trademark Association [INTA]
- The Trademark Reporter (also available from the law library via Hein online)
- The World Intellectual Property Organization Trademarks Gateway
- American Intellectual Property Law Association Home Page
- Canadian
Intellectual Property Office home page
- searchable database of Canadian trademarks
- Cornell Law Library's trademark law overview (with links)
- The Lumen Project Trademark law material
- Professor Barton Beebe’s Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook
- Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity
- H.R. 1505 and S. 176, No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act
- S. 2173, Trademark Licensing Protection Act
- S. 2934, Shop Safe Act
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(b)log
- John Welch's TTABlog
- Marty Schwimmer's Trademark Blog
- Techdirt
- Eric Goldman's Tech Law & Marketing Blog
- Knijff Blog
- Julie Zerbo’s The Fashion Law
- Weintraub Tobin’s IP Law Blog
- Kluwer Trademark Blog
- X Social Media v X Corp. (Read the Complaint)
- Chippendales vs. Strippendales
- Dee’s Nuts vs. Deez Nuts
- Metabyte vs. Meta
- American Airlines vs. Skiplagged (read the Complaint)
- Open AI vs. Open AI
- Frost River vs. Lucasfilm and Filson (read the Complaint)
- Trader Joe’s vs. the Trader Joe’s workers union (read Dave Jamison’s story for HuffPost)
- Fender vs. Win-D-Fender
- Mattel vs. Rap Snacks
- Pooper Trooper vs. Scoop Troop
- Jerry Falwell Jr. vs. Liberty University (read the complaint and the Bloomberg Law story)
- The Doobie Brothers vs. Doobie Decibel System
- Lubbock Christian University vs. Louisiana Christian University (read the Complaint)
- Bacon Bitch vs. Breakfast Bitch
- Craig Chaquico vs. Jefferson Starship
- Thomas Pink vs. Victoria’s Secret
- Friggin’ Buddy vs. Coca Cola
- Borghese costmetics vs. Prince Lorenzo Borghese’s Royal Pet Club pet grooming products
- The Webb Law Firm vs. the Webb Law Centre. (See also this Webb Law Firm.)
- Chateau Marmont hotel and bungalows vs. Cateau Marmont cat spa and bungalows, both in Los Angeles (See also Chateau Marmutt.)
- Kroger Private Selection vs. Lidl Preferred Selection
- D.C. Comics vs. Dark Knight wine
- San Diego Comic.con® International vs. Salt Lake Comic.Con
- Deadmau5 vs. Meowingtons
- McDonalds vs. McSpotlight
- The Joy of Cooking vs. The Joy of Soup. (Read the cease and desist letter, courtesy of the Lumen project.)
- Soda, Pop, or Coke? map
- Don’t Say Velcro
- Subway vs. Sheetz
- Mental Floss’s list of 41 brand names that people use as generic terms
- US Chamber of Commerce vs. The Yes Men. (Read the Complaint and defendants' Motion to Dismiss.)
- Irene Calboli & Martin Senftleben (eds.), The Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks: Critical Perspectives (2018)
- Register.com Domain Name Lookup
- The ICANN home page
- WIPO ADR Domain Name Dispute Resolution
- UDRP Decision Search Engines:
- WIPO index of WIPO UDRP cases and panel decisions
- National Arbitration Forum index of NAF cases and panel decisions
- Czech Arbitration Court Arbitration Center for Internet Disputes index of ADR cases and panel decisions
- Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution index of decisions
- Former dispute resolution provider eResolution index of UDRP decisions
- Domain Name Brokers
Pending Federal Legislation
Trademark law blogs
A sampler of some trademark disputes
Trademark and service mark disputes
Trade dress
Genericide
False designation of origin?
Topics
Non-Traditional Trademarks
Key Word Advertising
Internet Domain Names
Send me an email message: jdlitman at umich.edu