Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Elizabeth King (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: 4:00p-6:00p M Location: 213
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: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=10.
Prerequisites: While trademark law or IP Survey would be helpful, neither is required.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: simulation
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Special Case
Course Materials: 1. The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure online https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current 2. Version 11 of Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook by Barton Beebe https://www.tmcasebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BeebeTMLaw-v11-digital-edition-2024.pdf
