The thorough Guide to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Practice takes you step-by-step through the entire process, covering claims for relief, defenses that can be asserted in opposition and cancellation proceedings, motion practice, mailing and service, discovery, evidence, proving your case, objecting to evidence, appeals, settlement and more. By Jeffery A. Handelman. As trademark law continues to evolve, so do the reasons practitioners might find themselves before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ( TTAB). Cutting-edge business concepts, breakthroughs in technology, and the increasing variety of forms of commerce are all bringing new and interesting challenges to trademark practice. Only Guide to TTAB Practice helps you with practice and procedure, as well as substantive law. Whether you're a rookie or a veteran, Guide to TTAB Practice makes certain you're fully prepared for every TTAB proceeding. This one-of-a-kind, nuts-and-bolts resource created by an expert practitioner takes you step-by-step through the entire process and tells you everything you need to know about practicing before the TTAB. Areas of particular interest include: Claims for relief Defenses that can be asserted in opposition and cancellation proceedings Motion practice Mailing and service Discovery Evidence--proving your case Objecting to evidence Discovery and testimony in cases involving foreign parties Restriction proceedings Priority determinations Summary judgment Submitting evidence Objecting to evidence Testimony Briefs at final hearing and oral argument Argument Appeals International challenges. Settlement--the chapter on settlement presents the most effective ways settlements can be structured in accordance with the governing Trademark Rules of Practice

Consumers can make choices because of the differentiation that is preserved by intellectual property. Competition law informs intellectual property, generally with the intent of ensuring that it achieves this main purpose. However, very often, certain public policies relating to competition interfere with the way intellectual property should normally operate, either with the purpose of reinforcing its differentiating role, or with the objective of submitting it to other public goals – such as access to essential goods and services, or in recognition of situations where a given invention becomes part of a technical standard or is deemed dangerous to health or the environment. This book presents eighty cases that interpret the various public policies that mould the interface of intellectual property law with competition law (or antitrust). Although most cases are from the United States - which has developed an enormously wide wealth of jurisprudence in this area - there are also cases from the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, South Korea, India, and Argentina. The author presents the cases under the following general headings: • setting the right dosage (i.e., avoiding too much or too little intellectual property); • setting the standards of differentiation; • refusing to license intellectual property; • licensing (and assigning) intellectual property; • enforcing intellectual property rights; • remedies; • intellectual property in sectors of special public interest; and • technical standards. Revealing in extraordinary depth the tensions behind the values of the free market which intellectual property serves and the variety of responses these tensions provoke, this book may be regarded as a watershed resource regarding the principles and policies that, sometimes coherently, sometimes not, preside over the very complex relationship between intellectual property and antitrust. It is sure to be greatly valued by all professionals in both fields, from practitioners to policymakers, as well as by academics.

Rev. ed. of : Antitrust law developments (fourth). c1997.