LibGuides: Trademark Law Research: Secondary Resources

Treatises and Practitioner Materials

McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition
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A leading treatise in U.S. trademark law, providing extensive information and analysis. McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition covers trademark registration, infringement and enforcement, trademark transactions, and some international aspects of trademark law. It is updated several times annually.
Gilson on Trademarks
A comprehensive trademark law treatise, including forms. Updated three times per year.
Bloomberg Law - Trademarks & Copyrights
A full suite of trademark practitioner tools, including resources on trademark prosecution, litigation, and counterfeiting, TTAB tracking, and trademark search.

Websites and Blogs

The TTABlog
Focusing on trademark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), this blog is written by intellectual property attorney John Welch, who is also on the editorial board of the Trademark Reporter (see below).
Likelihood of Confusion
Covering trademark law and other intellectual property issues, this blog is written by intellectual property attorney and commercial itigator Ron Coleman.

Law Reviews and Journals

To search for relevant law review articles on trademark law, consider using a legal periodical index in lieu of full-text searches on Westlaw and LexisNexis. Indexes provide broader date coverage and a more focused search than a general search, saving you time and providing relevant, more comprehensive results. Indexes available to the Penn Law community include the Legal Resource Index and the Index to Legal Periodicals or the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (with coverage from 1908-1981).

Additional legal periodical resources include:

The Trademark Reporter
A bimonthly journal published by the International Trademark Association (INTA) covering trademark and unfair competition law worldwide.
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Published quarterly.

State Trademark Law

State Trademark and Unfair Competition Law by U.S.Trademark Association Staff
Publication Date: 1996

Westlaw - State and Federal Trademark Search
Search trademark office filings for the USPTO and all fifty states.