9/27/2004

Trademark Law in a Nutshell

From Guiding Rights Blog:

"In our trademark course, we struggle to cut to the core of trademark law, to find the essence, to reveal the fundamental principles on which all rests.

We come down to these two statements:

Rights = use + distinctiveness

Infringement = prior rights + likelihood of confusion


That is all you need to know. Everything else is a footnote."