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The Rational Limits of Trade Dress Protection


The Rational Limits of Trade Dress Protection - Scholarship Repository

Part I of this Article explores the principles governing trade dress protection under the common law and the Lanham Act. This Part includes a critical ...

Copying in the Shadow of the Constitution - Scholarship Repository

Davis, Theodore H. Jr., "Copying in the Shadow of the Constitution: The Rational Limits of Trade Dress Protection" (1996). Minnesota Law Review. 2408.

Limitations In Seeking Trade Dress With Patent Protection

In the U.S., trade dress protection — the look and feel of a product or packaging — is unavailable for designs that are entirely dictated by ...

The Rational Limits of Trademark Law (plus 2005 postscript)

See also Jay Dratler, Jr., Trade Dress. Protection For Product Configurations: Is There a Conflict with Patent Policy?, 24 AM. INTELL. PROP. L. ASS'N Q.J. 427, ...

The Rational Basis of Trademark Protection Revisited - CORE

sion: The Rational Limits of Trademark Protection ... 3d at 35 (noting that "[a] primary pur- pose of trade dress or trademark protection is to protect that which ...

Aesthetic Funtionality Doctrine and the Law of Trade-Dress Protection

However, the courts have held that the "functional" fea- tures on a product can never be protected under trade-dress law. 2. 1 The Supreme Court defines "trade ...

Trade Dress Infringement | UpCounsel 2024

... trade dress protection, even if that trade dress is nonfunctional. ... Courts can also just limit the use of trade dress through an injunction.

trade dress protection and the problem of distinctiveness

Trade dress seems to be an area in particular need of this refocus as the debate over protection continues. Copyright © 2002 The John Marshall Law School. Cite ...

The Rational Basis of Trademark Protection Revisited - Fordham Law

sion: The Rational Limits of Trademark Protection, 83 TRADEMARK REP. ... (noting that “[a] primary purpose of trade dress or trademark protection ...

Supreme Court of the United States

be no trade dress protection, because most trade dress designs ... within limits, courts frequently consider the availability of ...

defining the elements of trade dress infringement under section 43(a ...

In the context of trade dress, functionality limits the protection of a certain features so that competitors can effectively compete to produce the same ...

Virtual Trade Dress: A Very Real Problem - Tom W. Bell

... trade dress by giving trade dress protection to the actual products that consumers valued. ... Intrinsic Limits on Virtual Trade Dress. —Despite the risks ...

Trade Dress Under the Law | Intellectual Property Law Center | Justia

... trade dress protection. Trade dress can be protected through common law rights. However, the Lanham Act also protects trade dress and allows ...

Famous Trademarks and the Rational Basis for Protecting "Irrational ...

Moskin, Dilution Law: At a Crossroad? Dilution or Delusion: The Rational Limits of trademark ... Burberry's famous trade dress or a Cartier watch would cer-.

Trademark basics - UH Law Center

If trade dress protection is sought for those features the strong evidence of functionality based on the previous patent adds great weight to the statutory ...

Toward a More Coherent Doctrine of Trademark Genericism and ...

to limit protection of trade dress when a prohibition on copying it would ... The Rational Limits of Trade Dress Protection, 80 MINN. L. REV. 595, 622 ...

US High Court Decides Pivotal Trade Dress Case - FindLaw

By raising the level of proof required to qualify for protection of product design trade dress, Wal-Mart will make it more difficult and expensive to prevent ...

Trade Dress: Who Should Bear the Burden of Proving or Disproving ...

2d at 76 (purpose of Lanham Act is to protect con- sumer from confusion); Jessica Litman, Note, The Problem of Functional Features: Trade Dress Infringement ...

TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. - Berkeley Law

1309, 1323-30 (1998); Theodore H. Davis, Copying in the Shadow of the Constitution: The Rational Limits of Trade Dress Protection, 80 MINN. L. REV. 595, 596 ...

SERVICING TRADE DRESS - SSRN

Dinwoodie, The Rational Limits of Trademark Law, 6 INT'L ... themes outside the purview of trade dress protection ... secondary meaning for service dress would ...