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		<title>Choosing Good Trademark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[QUESTION: How Do I Choose a Good Trademark?
ANSWER : Choosing the right name or logo for a business or product is an art. Companies sometimes pay thousands of dollars to marketing and identity research firms to help them find the &#8220;perfect&#8221; name for a product or business. This is oftentimes money well spent, since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Internet may affect nationwide priority ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, nationwide priority is listed by trademark attorneys as one of the most important reasons to register a trademark.
However, there is an open question raised by the operation of a business over the Internet and whether or not trademarks used on a site are automatically given nationwide priority without a federal registration.
Arguably, an Internet site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trademarklawlitigation.com/articles/how-the-internet-may-affect-nationwide-priority/</link>
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		<title>A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abandonment of a mark :
Abandonment occurs when the trademark owner stops using the mark with no intention to resume using it. Use of a mark in this context means the bona fide use of the mark made in the ordinary course of trade, and not made merely to reserve a right in a mark. Nonuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad faith (bad intent) :
A mental state characterized by an intent to deceive consumers by using a competitor&#8217;s trademark or one that is confusingly similar to it. Bad faith is not required to find trademark infringement or dilution. However, courts are far more likely to award monetary damages in a case where there is bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cancellation of trademark (cancellation proceeding) :
A federal trademark registration may be canceled by a court in a civil action, or by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a cancellation proceeding. The grounds for cancellation of a mark include; the mark is likely to cause confusion with a prior mark, it is descriptive of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damages :
A monetary amount awarded to the plaintiff by the court in order to compensate the plaintiff for actual injury sustained by the actions of the defendant. In trademark cases, the basis of damages is typically the plaintiff&#8217;s lost profits or defendant&#8217;s profits as a result of the infringing activity, and may include prejudgment interest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Equitable defenses :
Historically, an equitable defense was one that was only available in the courts of equity, and not the courts of law. Since the focus in the courts of equity was predominately to enforce principals of fairness, it is not surprising that an equitable defense in the modern trademark law context is one that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trademarklawlitigation.com/glossary/e/</link>
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		<title>F</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fair Use :
Fair use of a mark is use in a way that is descriptive of one&#8217;s products, use that is other than as a trademark, and use that is undertaken in good faith (i.e. not to cash in on the goodwill of the trademark owner.) Fair use is generally treated as an absolute defense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trademarklawlitigation.com/glossary/f/</link>
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		<title>G</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) :
The GATT was originally created in 1946 to work out international agreements on world merchandise trade. Since then there have been several &#8220;rounds&#8221; of the GATT. While serious trademark discussions occurred in the Tokyo Round of the 70&#8217;s and again in the &#8217;80s, it wasn&#8217;t until the Geneva [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trademarklawlitigation.com/glossary/g/</link>
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		<title>I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Identifying source :
Identifying the source of a product or service for the consuming public is the primary objective of trademark law. As such, the Trademark Act grants exclusive rights only to those trademarks enabling a consumer to discriminate between different brands of goods and services. The consumer need not be able to discern the precise [...]]]></description>
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