Trademark Organization Training and Learning
(TOTAL)
This course provides new trademark attorneys with basic knowledge
of the Federal Trademark Act, examination procedures and automated
search tools. Practice and Procedures Lectures and Activities
cover the following topics:
Legal Training –
Mandatory for all first year trademark examining attorneys.
Trademark Law Overview
Refusals under Section 2(d) of Trademark
Act (Likelihood of Confusion)
Refusals under Section 2(e)(1) of
Trademark Act
(Mere Descriptiveness/Deceptively
Misdescriptive)
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
Refusals under Section 2(e)(2) of
Trademark Act (Geographically Descriptive)
Refusals under Section 2(e)(3) of
Trademark Act
(Geographically Deceptively Misdescriptive)
Refusals under Section 2(e)(4) of
Trademark Act (Primarily Merely Surname)
Intent to Use Procedural Requirements
Identification and Classification
of Goods and Services Practice
Legal Letter Writing
Drawings, Specimens and Use-Based
Refusals
Basis Requirements
Options Practice – Section 2(f) of
Trademark Act and Supplemental Register
Disclaimer Requirements
Evidence Practice
Refusals under Sections 2(a), (b)
and (c) of Trademark Act
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