Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users

More Than 83,000 Product Comparisons and Their Citations The Third Edition contains more than 83,000 product comparisons, decided by the courts and TTAB. It also includes citations for every comparison, making it easy to find decisions on the Patent and Trademark Office website or in Bloomberg BNA s U.S. Patents Quarterly. Complete Analysis and Editorial Uniformity To help practitioners conduct the most complete search possible of similar products, the authors have analyzed the findings of the courts and/or the Board in order to impose editorial uniformity on the descriptions of products listed in the cases and have assigned U.S. Class numbers to each product. The Third Edition covers TTAB proceedings through December, 2012, including 3,300 comparisons from that year alone. Searchable CD-ROM, with Data Spanning 84 Years of TTAB Action, Allows Electronic Searching and Linking The accompanying CD-ROM fully incorporates the new data from each annual update into the Third Edition, providing one seamless data file spanning 84 years of TTAB action. Virtually all of the product comparisons are provided on the CD-ROM, allowing for electronic searching and linking, in most cases, to the full text decisions either on the PTO s TTAB Decisions website or, for Bloomberg BNA subscribers, on the IP Resource Center.