Trademark Organization
Training and Learning
Legal Training mandatory for all first year trademark-examining
attorneys |
This course provides new
trademark attorneys with basic knowledge of the Federal Trademark Act, examination procedures
and automated search tools. Practice and Procedures Lectures and Activities cover the following
topics:
- Trademark Law Overview
- Refusals under Section 2(d) of Trademark Act (Likelihood of Confusion)
- Refusals under Section 2(e)(1) of Trademark Act
(Mere Descriptiveness/Deceptively Misdescriptive)
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
- Refusals under Section 2(e)(2) of Trademark Act (Geographically Descriptive)
- Refusals under Section 2(e)(3) of Trademark Act (Geographically Deceptively
Misdescriptive)
- Refusals under Section 2(e)(4) of Trademark Act (Primarily Merely Surname)
- Intent to Use Procedural Requirements
- Identification and Classification of Goods and Services Practice
- Legal Letter Writing
- Drawings, Specimens and Use-Based Refusals
- Basis Requirements
- Options Practice Section 2(f) of Trademark Act and Supplemental
Register
- Disclaimer Requirements
- Evidence Practice
- Refusals under Sections 2(a), (b) and (c) of Trademark Act
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