Lessons by Subject Outline - Trademark

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The Trademark Index lists all CALI lessons covering Trademark.

Subject Outline

Types of Marks
- Policy & Overview
  - Trademark Policy (TM02)
- Service marks
  - Service Marks (TM18)
- Certification & collection marks
  - Collective Marks and Certification Marks (TM06)
Subject Matter of a Mark
- Word & General Overview
- Design Marks & Composite Marks
- Trade Dress (including Product Configuration)
  - Introduction to Trade Dress Law (TM09)
- Non-traditional marks (color, sound, fragrance)
- Functionality
  - Functionality (TM05)
Distinctiveness
- Inherently Distinctive, Descriptive, & Generic Terms
  - Distinctiveness (TM04)
- Acquired Distinctiveness through Secondary Meaning
  - Acquired Secondary Meaning (TM19)
- Surnames & Foreign Words
  - Foreign Words and Personal Names as Trademarks (TM20)
- Geographic Marks
Prior Use as a Bar to Registration
- Determining "prior use" in USA and foreign
  - The Role of 'Use' in Trademark Law: An Overview (TM25)
Creation and Scope of Exclusive Rights
- Overview of Use
- Geographic scope of rights
  - The Geographic Scope of Trademark Protection (IP02)
- Competing goods & related goods and scope of protection
  - Related Goods (TM12)
- First Sale & Exhaustion
  - Trademark Exhaustion/First Sale (TM14)
Ownership
- Initial ownership
  - Initial Trademark Ownership (TM17)
- Abandonment by non-use
  - Abandonment (TM10)
- Assignment and Licensing
  - Trademark Assignments and Licenses (TM24)
Registration and Related Rights
- Process of Registration
  - Actual Use (§ 1(a))
  - Intent to Use (§ 1(b))
  - Principal & Supplemental Register
  - Concurrent registration (§ 2(d))
  - Bars to Registration
    - Federal Trademark Registration: Bars to Registration (TM15)
  - Opposition
  - Effects or Ramifications of Registration
- Maintenance of Registration
  - Section 8
  - Renewal
- Benefits of Registration
  - Incontestability
    - Incontestability (TM08)
  - Constructive Use
  - Presumptions from Registration
- Cancellation - See Remedies
Infringement
- Likelihood of confusion
  - Likelihood of Confusion (TM22)
- Initial Interest Confusion
- Post- Sale Confusion
- Confusion as to Endorsement, Sponsorship or Association
  - Trademark Fair use (TM07)
- Reverse Confusion
- Contributory and Vicarious Infringement
- Defenses
  - Fair and Nominative Use
    - Trademark Fair use (TM07)
  - First Amendment
  - Valid license
  - Statute of limitations
  - Acquiescence
  - Laches
    - The Equitable Defense of Laches (REM06)
  - Unclean hands
    - Unclean Hands (REM07)
Remedies
- Injunctions
  - Injunctive Relief for Trademark Infringement (TM23)
  - Defamation Remedies (REM29)
- Damages & Profits
  - Recovery of Damages for Trademark Infringement (TM13)
- Seizures & Destruction of Goods
- Cancellation
Counterfeiting
Dilution
- What is Dilution?
  - Trademark Dilution: Defining Dilution and its Elements (TM16) (Lesson has been removed for revisions)
- Eligibility
  - Trademark Dilution: What Marks are Eligible for Protection (TM01)
- Proving Dilution
- Defenses & Remedies
  - Trademark Dilution: Defenses and Remedies (TM11)
Cybersquatting
- Lanham Act Section 43(d): Cybersquatting (TM03)
International Aspects
- European Union Trademark Basics (TM26)
- Trademarks in the European Union: Advanced Topics (TM27)
- Section 44
  - Registration and Section 44 (TM21)
- Madrid
- Extraterritoriality
- Grey Market Imports
- Rights Made Under Treaties
  - TRIPS
  - NAFTA
- Rights under Foreign Laws