FINAL EXAM:

• Trademark law governs what? Protects what?
   
  
• What is "passing off"?
   
  
• What does the Lanham Act prohibit?
   
  
• What is the difference between a trademark and a service mark?
   
  
• These marks can be in what form if it meets what three criteria? Know the rules regarding the criteria. What are the examples of trademarks that have lost protection by losing their distinctiveness?
   
  
• Is there a registration requirement for trademark protection?
   
  
• What are the advantages of registering a trademark?
   
  
• What symbols may be used if the trademark is not registered?
   
  
• How long does registration last?
   
  
• How can trademark be lost? (Know what the terms mean.)

• What is a trademark?
   
  
• What is a service mark?
   
  
• What is a certification mark?
   
  
• What is a collective mark?
   
  
• What are the benefits of federal trademark registration?
   
  
• What is TEAS? What does it allow you to do? (More than just access forms?)
   
  
• Where can you search for conflicting marks?
   
  
• Are there federal regulations governing the use of the designations "TM" or "SM" with trademarks? But? What do they indicate?
   
  
• When is it proper to use the federal registration symbol (the letter R enclosed within a circle) with the mark?
   
  
• What are common law trademark rights?
   
  
• On what bases can the Office refuse to register a mark? Under Section 2 of the Trademark Act (15 U.S.C. §1052)?

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