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Trademark Law Resources
A Pathfinder
Vicenç Feliú
October 2005
Trademark Law Resources
Legal Research Guides
Trademark Law Resources
Selected Guide to Materials at or Available Through the LSU Law Library
Vicenç Feliú
Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian
October, 2005
Primary Sources
Statutes
15 U.S. Code Chapter 22 deals with trademarks
Legislative History
For additional resources on compiling a federal legislative history, check the library’s research guides:
Federal Legislative History Research
Regulations
37 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 2, 3, 6, 7 &, 10 deal with trademarks
Cases
Case Finding
- Use annotated codes.
- United States Code Annotated. Second Floor, Federal Materials. Westlaw:
USCA
- United States Code Service. Second Floor, Federal Materials. LexisNexis:
USCS
- Use West's Federal Practice Digest 4th and its predecessors. Topic: Trade Regulations and Intellectual Property. Second Floor, Federal Materials.
- Look for cases cited in footnotes in relevant treatise sections and law review articles.
- Look in the index to American Law Reports Federal (ALR Fed) to find relevant articles.
Reading Room First Floor
Administrative Decisions & Materials
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, combined administrative decisions
Commissioner of Patents and Trademark
Trademark Registrations
Secondary Sources
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Publications
Books
Finding Books: Use the Law Library's online catalog. Consider the following search terms:
- United States Trademarks
- United States Unfair Competition
- United States Intellectual Property
Handbooks
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP): http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab/tbmp/index.html
- Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell, 3d ed.
- Print:
First Floor, Reserve Book Room KF2980 .M52 2000
- Trademark Law: A Practitioner's Guide, 4th ed.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF3180.K32 2002
- 1 CD-ROM Ask at the Circulation Desk
- Westlaw:
PLIREF-TMLAW
Treatises
- Callmann, The Law of Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies, 4th ed.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF1609 .C33 1981
- Trademark Protection and Practice.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF3180.G54
- McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, 4th ed.
- Print:
First Floor KF3180 .M33
- Westlaw:
MCCARTHY
Forms and Formbooks
- Patent and Trademark Office forms:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#TM
- Protecting Trade Secrets, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, 3d ed.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF2979 .D672
- U.S. Trademark Law: Rules of Practice &, Federal Statutes, 3d ed.
- Trademark Law Practice Forms, 2d. ed.
How-To Books
- Patent, Copyright & Trademark, 6th ed.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF2980 .E44 2003
- Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name, 6th ed.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF3180.Z9 M28 1997
Practice Materials
Books for Fun
- Intellectual Property : Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas
- Print:
Fourth Floor K1401 .I558 1997
- Protection of Nontraditional Mark : Trademark Rights in Sounds, Scents, Colors, Motions and Product Design[s] in the U.S.
- Print:
Fourth Floor KF3184 .A73 2000
Periodicals
Finding Periodical Articles
Online Resources
Commercial Databases
- LexisNexis: Area of Law by Topics > Trademark Law
Trademarks
- Westlaw:
See "Intellectual Property" under "Topical Materials by Area of Practice" in the Database Directory
Practical Websites
Cool Websites
Blogs
Email Discussion Lists
Email Newsletters
Foreign & International
Primary Sources
For a general discussion of Intellectual Property Research in an international context, see Stefanie Weigmann's Update to Researching Intellectual Property Law in an International Context:
http://www.llrx.com/features/iplaw2.htm
The major website for international intellectual property law is the site of the World Intellectual Property Organization:
http://www.wipo.int/
For additional information of doing research in European Union materials check the library’s research guides:
The European Union
Major Treaties
- Madrid Protocol
- Microform:
Fourth Floor, U.S. Documents Y 1.1/4:106-41
- Madrid Protocol Implementation Act (Pub. L 107-273), 116 Stat. 1758, 19131921 - bookmarked location in file:
HTML | PDF
- International Trademark Treaties with Commentary. Includes:
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- the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Mark
- the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Mark
- the Trademark Law Treaty
- Print: Third Floor K1553.W56 2004
- For links to the full text of major trademark treaties in electronic format, see:
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/index.jsp
- LexisNexis:
Intellectual Property Treaties
European Union Directives, Proposals, and Reports
Foreign National Trademark Law
- Collection of Laws for Electronic Access [CLEA] database from WIPO, contains citations and full-text to the intellectual property laws of numerous countries of the world:
http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/index.jsp
- Intellectual Property Rights, contains citations and links to intellectual property laws of Organization of American States member states.
http://www.sice.oas.org/int_prop/ipnale.asp
- World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies, contains summaries of national intellectual property laws written by attorneys as well as translated legislation in volumes 3 & 4.
- Print:
Third Floor K1401 .W675
- World Trademark Law and Practice is a survey of trademark laws in over one hundred jurisdictions alphabetically by country in five volumes.
- Print:
Third Floor K1555.4.H67
- Trademarks Throughout the World is a digest that summarizes the significant features of the trademark laws of over 200 jurisdictions, alphabetically by country.
- Print:
Third Floor K1554.4.T7
International Trademark Law
- Trademark Practice Throughout the World is a practical guide to the practice of international trademark law with procedures for the different registration systems in two volumes.
- Print:
Third Floor K1554.4.S69
Cases
Registrations
Secondary Sources
Selected Books on International Trademark Law
- Trademark Dilution.
- Print:
Third Floor KD1439 .M37
- International Trademarks and Copyrights: Enforcement and Management.
- Print:
Third Floor K1420.5 .I58 2004
Selected Journals Specializing in International Intellectual Property Law
- IIC; International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law.
- Print:
Third Floor K Periodicals
- Trademark Reporter
- European Intellectual Property Review.
- Print:
Third Floor KJC Periodicals
To find articles on trademark in general foreign and international periodicals, try using the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals online or the same set in print at the Third Floor, Index table: Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Online Sources
Prepared by Vicenç Feliú
Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian
October 2005 |
