Legal Research Guides by Course - Trademark and Unfair Competition Law

Course Description

This course introduces students to the Lanham Act and related statutory and common law doctrines designed to protect against consumer confusion and appropriation of commercial goodwill. Topics covered include trademarks and service marks, trade dress, dilution, false advertising, misappropriation, false endorsements, and false attribution. Class readings and discussion will focus on the policy justifications for these property rights, requirements for obtaining, maintaining, and enforcing them, and applicable defenses and remedies. A technical background I not required to take the course. (3 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Thomas Lizzi, Esq. (adjunct professor)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KF2971-KF2983 Intellectual Property - General - Antitrust Aspects - Litigation
KF3176-KF3194 Trademark Law
KF3195-KF3198 Unfair Competition
KFP330 Pennsylvania Intellectual Property

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg BNA Online under Intellectual Property Law Resource Center - http://0-iplaw.bna.com.library.law.duq.edu/iprc/
• CCH Library - Intelliconnect under Intellectual Property, Advertising Law, & Antitrust & Trade Regulation
• Hein Online
• Westlaw and Lexis
• Bloomberg Law
• Legal Scholarship Network
• LoisLaw under Intellectual Property Law Library - http://www.loislaw.com/pns/index.htp?content=/pns/start.htp
  & under Licensing Agreements Library - http://www.loislaw.com/pns/index.htp?content=/pns/start.htp
• CALI under Intellectual Property - http://www.cali.org/category/cali-topics/2l-3l-upper-level-lesson-topics/intellectual-property
• CVN Law School under Intellectual Property (both audio and video cases available)
• Intellectual Property Law Server - http://www.intelproplaw.com/

Trademark Law

• Trademark (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trademark
• Trademark Law in the United States (BitLaw) - http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/index.html
• Trademark Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/trademark-law.html
• Trademark (FindLaw) - http://corporate.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/trademark/
• Trademark Law (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/trademark-law
• Overview of Trademark Law (Harvard) - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm
• Trademarks (US Patent & Trademark Office) - http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (US Patent & Trademark Office) - http://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/detail/manual/TMEP/Oct2012/d1e2.xml
• Trademark Process (US Patent & Trademark Office) - http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/index.jsp
• All About Trademarks - http://www.ggmark.com/
• American Patent and Trademark Center - http://www.patentpending.com/index.php
• Copyright and Trademark Law (LexisNexis Communities) - http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/copyright-trademarklaw/
• Current Trademark Legal Literature (Tarlton Law Library) - http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/current_awareness/trademark
• Pennsylvania Trademark - http://www.pennsylvaniatrademark.com/resources.cfm
• ABA Journal - Trademark Law - http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/topic/trademark+law
• The Trademark Reporter - http://www.inta.org/TMR/Pages/Overview.aspx
• STOPfakes.gov - http://www.stopfakes.gov/
• IP Watchdog - http://www.ipwatchdog.com/
• Trademark Law Glossary (MarkLaw.com) - http://www.marklaw.com/trademark-glossary/glossary.htm
• The Trademark Blog - http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - http://www.chillingeffects.org/
• What is Trademark Dilution (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-trademark-dilution.html
• Dilution (International Trademark Association) - http://www.inta.org/Advocacy/Pages/Dilution.aspx
• What is Trade Dress (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-trade-dress.html
• Trade Dress (International Trademark Association) - http://www.inta.org/TradeDress/Pages/TradeDress.aspx

Unfair Competition

• Unfair Competition (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unfair_competition
• Unfair Competition (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/unfair-competition.html

False Advertising

• False Advertising (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/false_advertising?quicktabs_3=1#quicktabs-3
• False Advertising (Legal Match) - http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/false-advertising.html
• What is False Advertising? (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-false-advertising.html
• AdLaw by Request (Reed Smith) - http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/
• Federal Trade Commission - Division of Advertising Practices - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/bcpap.shtm

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
• Legal Research Guides: Intellectual Property

Law School Concentrations

• Intellectual Property
  
  

 Created by Patricia Horvath
1/4/2013