Main Volume Information
One of the biggest problems facing trademark attorneys who deal with selecting new trademarks, prosecuting trademark applications in the PTO, or litigating trademark rights is determining whether a client’s mark used to identify a particular product might be “confusingly similar” to another mark used to identify other products. Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users is the only desktop reference that guides practitioners through the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) and the courts’ findings on similarity of products for trademark uses-and it has been for more than two decades. This handy reference covers 82 years of Board decisions and includes a CD-ROM that allows for electronic searches.
The Second Edition contains more than 60,000 product comparisons by the courts and TTAB, covering decisions since 1929. Included are citations for every comparison, so decisions can easily be found on the PTO website or in Bloomberg BNA’s U.S. Patents Quarterly (USPQ).
1,000’s of New Listings...Access the Decisions Online!
All of the product comparisons are provided on an accompanying CD-ROM, allowing for electronic searching and linking, in most cases, to the full text decisions either on the PTO’s TTAB Decisions website or, for Bloomberg BNA subscribers, in the IP Resource Center.
Complete Analysis
To help practitioners conduct the most complete search possible of similar products, the authors have analyzed the findings of the courts and/or the Board in order to impose editorial uniformity on the descriptions of products listed in the cases and have assigned U.S. Class numbers to each product. The products are then aggregated by Class number so that users can more easily find synonymous product terms and closely similar products.
Simplified Research
Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users is a convenient and readily accessible source of data that will be useful in trademark infringement proceedings and for trademark registration matters. This data will permit the user to identify and locate virtually all decided cases which have compared products of interest to the user, with other products for trademark purposes. Citations are provided for all such cases.
Supplement Information
The 2012 Cumulative Supplement covers TTAB proceedings for 2007-2011 and contains the Board’s determination in virtually every new product comparison, with citations to either the TTAB proceeding number or to U.S. Patents Quarterly. The accompanying CD-ROM fully incorporates the Cumulative Supplement data into the Second Edition, providing one seamless data file spanning 82 years of TTAB action.
2008/1,648 pp. Hardcover/Order #9092P
2012/762 pp. Softcover/ISBN 9781617460920/Order #2092
Francis M. Pinckney; David R. Higgins, Contributing Author (Second Edition)
Francis M. Pinckney
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