[A2k] McCarthy Webcast: Using Other's Trademarks

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Now available on PIJIP webcast:



Professor J. Thomas McCarthy

on

Using Other People's Trademarks



View Webcast:

http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm



Third Annual Finnegan, Henderson,

Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property

Washington College of Law

October 25, 2007



Synopsis:



Ordinary people, as well as businesses and entrepreneurs, use other
people's trademarks all the time - legally. But perceptions are skewed
by continual emphasis on the power of intellectual property rights
owners to exclude, rather than on people's rights to use another's
trademarks. But clients ask lawyers every day: "Can I use this mark in
this way?" Professor McCarthy discusses the various ways that those
other than the trademark owner can make proper and legal use of
another's marks. This involves looking at categories like non-confusing
uses, fair uses and uses which do not dilute a famous mark.