Trademarks and Unfair Competition 08-09 Stat Supplement

Trademark law changes rapidly. To keep your course on trademark law up to date, the authors of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy, Second Edition, have compiled excerpts from significant new case decisions, combined with the current version of the Lanham Act, excerpts from other Federal and state statutory and administrative materials, and selections from critical international materials.

New cases in this Supplement include:

The latest iteration of ITC Limited v. Punchgini, on well-known marks
North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc., dealing with trademark use, the use of marks in metatags, and the availability of injunctive relief

Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. v. Haute Diggity Dog, LLC, on parodic uses of marks

C.B.C. Dist. And Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., addressing speech limitations on the right of publicity
Green v. Fornario and K and N Engineering, Inc. v. Bulat, on the award of attorneys fees in trademark cases

Legislative, administrative, and international materials include:

The Lanham Act

Excerpts from the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases and the Revised Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP, 5th ed. Sept. 30, 2007)

Updated rights of publicity statutes (from selected states)

International Materials

Excerpts from the TRIPS Agreement and the Paris Convention

Excerpts from The Madrid Protocol

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

Excerpts from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the EC Trademark Directive