Remedies Syllabus

Week		Subject		Laycock	Reader
1		Introduction; Restoring Plaintiff to His Rightful Position		1-19
1		Value as the Measure of the Rightful Position		19-33	Peevyhouse (1)
1		Reliance and Expectancy as Measures of the Rightful Position		37-48; 49-53	Damages' Formulas (2)
2		The Victim's Incentives			Cooter (3) Cooter & Porat (4) (not easy)
2	Consequential Damages	56-68	Epstein (5)
2	Liquidated Damages	74-88
3	Probabilistic Recoveries		Levmore (6) Porat (7)
3	Avoidable Consequences, Offsetting Benefits and Collateral Sources	92-110
3	The Scope of Liability	110-119
4	Economic Analysis of Specific Performance	383-411
4	Preventing Unjust Enrichment	565-603
4	Recission and the Benefit Requirement	621-639

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Trademarks Syllabus

UNFAIR COMPETITION AND TRADEMARKS

Mr. Landes

Fall 2009

 
 

Page numbers refer to Kitch & Perlman, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, University Casebook Series (5th Edition, Foundation Press: 1998. The course packet includes a copy of the Lanham Act, materials from the Trademark Office, Ch. 7 from Landes & Posner, and cases listed below

 
 

*Denotes material not covered in class

 
 

I. Misappropriation 9-23, 408-412

 
 

II. Unfair Competition

1. Economics of Advertising 57-64

 
 

2. Common Law False Advertising 65-71

 
 

3. Disparagement* 71-72, 74-79, 83-84

 
 

4. Lanham Act §43(a)

100-114,

McNeil v. Pfizer

126-132

Dastar v. 20th Century Fox

115-121

139-143

 
 

5. State Statutes* 144-145

 
 

6. The Federal Trade Commission* 155-164

 
 

III. Trademarks

 
 

1. The Fundamentals

165-184, Landes & Posner,

Ch. 7 from "The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law" (Harvard Univ. Press 2003),

Materials from Trademark Office on registration

 
 

2. Descriptive and Generic Marks

190-194, 202-206

Browne Drug v. Cococare Products

Ty v. Softbelly's

Custom Vehicles v. Forest River

 
 

3. Geographic Marks, Certification Marks, Personal Names and Likeness

213-216, 219-224

In Re
California Innovations

In Re Les Halles de Paris

Peaceable Planet v. Ty

ETW v. Jireh Publishing

4. Subject Matter & Preemption

224–242

Wal-Mart v. Samara

Traffix Devices v. Marketing Displays

Bretford Manufacturing v. Smith

Gibson Guitar v. PRS Guitar

25–37

 
 

5. Rights of Holders of Trademarks

257–277

284–289

Google v. American Blind

1-800 Contacts v. WhenU.com

Rescuecom v. Google

KP Permanent Make-Up v. Lasting Impression

 
 

6. Non-Competing Goods and Dilution

299-304

Mattel v. MCA Records

316-323, Ty v. Perryman

Playboy v. Welles

Playboy v. Netscape

Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog

327-329

Nitro v. Acushnet

Novartis v. Abbeyvet Export,

 
 

7. Domain Names

309-313,

Sporty's Farm v. Sportsman,

PETA v. Doughney,

Bosley v. Michael Kremer,

Hendrix v. Jimi Hendrix Fan Club

 
 

8. Remedies and Contributory Infringement

334-342,

Vulcan Golf v. Google,

Tiffany v. Ebay

9. Abandonment

Indianapolis Colts v. Baltimore Football Club

350-352

 
 

10. Assignment and Licensing

352-362

 
 

 
 

 
 

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