The intent of this discussion is to raise questions about trademark searching which will be discussed in future issues of IDEA. I will lead you through the questions raised by my journey through primarily legal literature in treatises and periodicals on the Lexis and Westlaw platforms
This issue of IDEA introduces a regular series of articles on intellectual property research tools a...
In the last seventy years, trademark rights have expanded enormously. Many commentators believe this...
There is a long tradition of trademark holders relying on the public to create designations that the...
Courts have continually utilized surveys to show evidence of secondary meaning, genericness, dilutio...
Trademarks have value because they reduce consumer search costs and thus promote overall efficiency ...
In theory, trademarks serve as information tools, by conveying product information through convenien...
The year 2003 saw a great deal of activity in the ongoing development of trademark law. While the la...
The modern Internet enables “millions of people to communicate with one another and to access ...
Most Internet searches result in unpaid (organic or algorithmic) results, and paid ads. The specific...
Baldwin, Virginia, ed. (2004) Patent and Trademark Information: Uses and Perspectives New York: Hawo...
Emerging trademark law doctrines have allowed trademark owners to excise socially beneficial content...
According to the sole normative foundation for trademark protection—“search costs” theory—trademarks...
The article describes the computerised trademark search system developed in 1984-1985 as the first s...
A vigorous debate has emerged regarding the expansion of trademark owners’ rights to have exclusive ...
The author shows that convergence has placed trademark law in the center of some of the hard-fought ...
This issue of IDEA introduces a regular series of articles on intellectual property research tools a...
In the last seventy years, trademark rights have expanded enormously. Many commentators believe this...
There is a long tradition of trademark holders relying on the public to create designations that the...
Courts have continually utilized surveys to show evidence of secondary meaning, genericness, dilutio...
Trademarks have value because they reduce consumer search costs and thus promote overall efficiency ...
In theory, trademarks serve as information tools, by conveying product information through convenien...
The year 2003 saw a great deal of activity in the ongoing development of trademark law. While the la...
The modern Internet enables “millions of people to communicate with one another and to access ...
Most Internet searches result in unpaid (organic or algorithmic) results, and paid ads. The specific...
Baldwin, Virginia, ed. (2004) Patent and Trademark Information: Uses and Perspectives New York: Hawo...
Emerging trademark law doctrines have allowed trademark owners to excise socially beneficial content...
According to the sole normative foundation for trademark protection—“search costs” theory—trademarks...
The article describes the computerised trademark search system developed in 1984-1985 as the first s...
A vigorous debate has emerged regarding the expansion of trademark owners’ rights to have exclusive ...
The author shows that convergence has placed trademark law in the center of some of the hard-fought ...
This issue of IDEA introduces a regular series of articles on intellectual property research tools a...
In the last seventy years, trademark rights have expanded enormously. Many commentators believe this...
There is a long tradition of trademark holders relying on the public to create designations that the...