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
- United States Patent &
Trademark Office
- U.S. Trademark Law Rules of Practice
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure [TMEP] (April 2017)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP) (June 2017)
- U.S.P.T.O. Trademark Electronic Search System
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System
- The Official Gazette
- Trademark Information Network videos
- Data Visualization Center Trademarks Dashboard
- Federal Trade Commission
- Cornell Law Library's trademark law overview (with links)
- The Lanham Act (as of May, 2017)
- International Trademark Association [INTA]
- 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
- FindLaw's Trademark Resources
- The Lumen Project Trademark law material
- Professor Barton Beebe’s Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook
- Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity
- S. 259 and H.R. 1450, No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act
- H. R. 2189, Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act
- S. 1164 and H.R.2495 Stop Online Booking Scams Act
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(b)log
- John Welch's TTABlog
- Marty Schwimmer's Trademark Blog
- Eric Goldman's Tech Law & Marketing Blog
- Michael Lee’s Pirated Thoughts
- Knijff markmatters
- Register.com Domain Name Lookup
- The ICANN home page
- WIPO ADR Domain Name Dispute Resolution
- Public Citizen's summaries of Cases challenging uses of brand names in domain names and metatags
- UDRP Decision Search Engines:
- WIPO index of WIPO UDRP cases and panel decisions
- National Arbitration Forum index of NAF cases and panel decisions
- Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre index of ADNDRC 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 providers CPR Insitutute and eResolution indices of UDRP decisions
- Domain Name Brokers
- The Doobie Brothers vs. Doobie Decibel System
- Trader Joe’s vs. Pirate Joe’s
- JustFab vs. Fab.com
- Thomas Pink vs. Victoria’s Secret
- Craig Chaquico vs. Jefferson Starship
- Friggin’ Buddy v. Coca Cola
- TruMoo cow milk vs. NüMoo nut milk
- Borghese costmetics vs. Prince Lorenzo Borghese’s Royal Pet Club pet grooming products
- The Olive Garden v. All of Garden
- The Webb Law Firm vs. the Webb Law Firm (see also this Webb Law Firm)
- Kroger Private Selection vs. Lidl Preferred Selection
- Milwaukee Summerfest vs. Red Lobster
- D.C. Comics vs. Wella Kryptonite
- D.C. Comics vs. Bruce Waynes
- D.C. Comics vs. Dark Knight wine
- Bully Hill Vineyards Home Page
- 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
- Amanda Blackhorse et. al. vs. The Washington Redskins
- Read the petition
- Don Henley vs. Don Henley
- Google vs. Booble
- Playboy vs. Playdog.com
- Toys "R" Us vs. The Star Wars Collectors Archive at www.toysrgus.com.
- United Airlines vs. Untied.com
- Zynga vs. BangWithFriends.com
- Amazon.com v. the New York Times
- Geico v. Google Adwords
- Beyond a Civil Action at www.civil-action.com
- The Foundation for a Better Life vs. ForABetterLife.org
- US Chamber of Commerce vs. The Yes Men -- (Read the Complaint and defendants' Motion to Dismiss)
- Return to the syllabus
- Send me an email message: jdlitman at umich.edu
Pending Federal Legislation
Trademark law blogs
Trademarks and Internet Domain Names
Key Word Advertising
A sampler of some trademark disputes
Trademark and service mark disputes
Genericide
Domain Name trademark disputes
Parodies
Advertising
False designation of origin?