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Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable Session 3: Abandonment of Trademark Rights

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What matters is a kind of psychological connection between those selves. Beer company suppressed company that had actually got the old recipes and wanted to produce the old beers. Burrell says Australia has snapped back towards the American rule.] Some companies are trying to revive them. Lisa Ramsey: genericide v.

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15th Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable: Session 1: Congress and the Courts (including the role of the Supreme Court)

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Courts actually ask whether consumers would, e.g., expect a movie company to do cross-branding with a software security company, but they don’t ask, is this how consumers are accustomed to seeing collaborations identified? But still evidence of hubris: armchair consumer psychology in Wal-Mart etc. They put it all over!

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WIPIP session 6: IP Theory

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Social organizations: IP protection centers funded by gov’t can provide info to rights holders; notaries/appraisal institutions; industry associations can serve members and establish IP litigation funds for impecunious members. Principal beneficiaries are Chinese companies moving up value chain at expense of trading partners.

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