Fall 2012
Prof. William Fisher
All of the materials for this course are (or will be) available online. The abridgments of the cases are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5 License, the terms of which are available here. The lecture notes for the course, in the form of an interactive PDF "map," may be downloaded from the following website: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/IP/IP Maps.htm.
A. Unfair Competition (1 class)
- Murphy Door Bed Co. v. Interior Sleep Systems, Inc., 874 F.2d 95 (2d Cir. 1989) [PDF version] [MSWord version] [review]
- Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- INS v. AP, 248 U.S. 215 (1918)
- Barclays Capital, Inc. v. Theflyonthewall.com, 650 F.3d 876 (2d Cir. 2011) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
B. Consumer Confusion (1.5 classes)
- LA §32 (15 U.S.C. §1114)
- LA 43(a) (15 U.S.C.§1125(a))
- Polaroid Corp. v. Polarad Elects., 287 F.2d 492 (CA2 1961) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- Top Tobacco, LP v. North Atlantic Operating Co., 509 F.3d 380 (7th Cir. 2007) [PDF version]
- Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, 423 F.3d 539 (6th Cir. 2005) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- Thomas Lee et al., "Trademarks, Consumer Psychology, and the Sophisticated Consumer," 57 Emory L.J. 575 (2008)
C. Dilution (1.5 classes)
- LA 43(c) (15 U.S.C.§1125(c))
- Nabisco, Inc. v. PF Brands, Inc., 191 F.3d 208 (CA2 1999) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- Moseley v. Viriginia Secret Catalogue, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003) [PDF version]
- Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog, 507 F.3d 252 (CA4 2007) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- Top Tobacco, LP v. North Atlantic Operating Co., 509 F.3d 380 (7th Cir. 2007) [PDF version] [review]
- Rebecca Tushnet, "Gone In Sixty Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science," 86 Texas L. Rev. 507 (2008)
D. Importation (videotaped make-up class)
E. Domain Names (1 class)
- Fagnelli Plumbing Co. v. Gillece Plumbing and Heating, Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15090 (WD Pa. 2011) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (1999)
- Dial-A-Mattress Operating Corp. v. Moakely, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Case N. D2005-0471 (July 1, 2005) [HTML version] [PDF version] [MSWord version]
- GoPets Ltd v. Hise, 657 F.3d 1024 (9th Cir. 2011) [PDF version]
F. Secondary Liability (1 class)
- Inwood Labs v. Ives Labs, 456 U.S. 844 (1982)
- Tiffany v. Ebay, 600 F.3d 93 (2d Cir. 2010) [PDF version] [MSWord version]
I sometimes represent parties in litigation and provide advice to companies and governments. Some of the issues that arise in those activities involve aspects of trademark law that are addressed in this course. To minimize the hazard that those activities would bias my presentations in the course, I provide on my homepage a disclosure of all of the activities at issue.
Version 4.0 (Final)
Last modified: November 27, 2012
William Fisher
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