Trademarks and Unfair Competition

2 units

This course introduces the principles and policies of trademark law, focusing on US federal law. This branch of the law provides exclusive rights to use trademarks, which are words or symbols or other devices that operate as a distinctive source identifier for goods and services. Trademark law plays an important part in today's economy. It is also an important area of legal practice, and one with a language and conceptual structure of its own. This course will teach you that language and structure. There will be a final exam.