Summer Mini 2023
Professor(s):
Lee B. Hunt (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: AsynchDistanceEd Location:
Course Outline: This two-hour course provides hands-on training and instruction on the procedure of Trademark prosecution, from pre-application searching and client admonishment through the filing of renewal documents ten years after registration. Particular attention will be paid to the bases for application-filings and common refusals. Class discussion will focus on the law, precedent, and the USPTO’s Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure. The course will also familiarize students with the electronic systems used by the trademark bar for searching databases of current registrations and pending applications, filing electronic applications, and responding to official correspondence issued by the USPTO. Upon completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and understanding required to prosecute a trademark registration for others when licensed to practice law.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Asynchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. Some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. Any assessment for the course, such as a final examination or a mid term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
Summer-mini will start on May 15th and end on June 2nd
Quota=12.
Prerequisites: While trademark law or IP Survey would be helpful, neither is required.
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 06/03 10am-12pm
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
ISBN: 978-1454871057 (5th edition)
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (Current Edition). Hard copy is NOT required, as electronic version available at http://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/detail/manual/TMEP/ current/d1e2.xml.
More book details can be found on the syllabus.
