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1: Overview of trademark and other designation rights
- 1.1: The concept of trade mark and designation law
- 1.2: The importance of trade marks and designation rights
- 1.3: Types of designation rights
- 1.4: Principles of priority and territoriality
- 1.5: Legal sources
- 1.6: Offices and courts
- 1.7: Impact of the CJEU
- 1.8: Sovereignty of the trade mark systems and legal effect
- 1.9: Literature and electronic resources
2: Capacity to be a trade mark and different types of trade marks
- 2.1: Definition, legal bases, requirements and types of trade mark
- 2.2: Sign
- 2.3: Clear and precise representation
- 2.4: Capability of distinguishing
- 2.5: Collective marks, certification and warranty marks
3: Ownership
- 3.1: Basics
- 3.2: Special rules for EU trade marks and international registrations
- 3.3: Collective trade marks
4: Absolute grounds for refusal
- 4.1: Overview of the absolute grounds for refusal
- 4.2: Difference to relative grounds for refusal
- 4.3: Common principles of absolute grounds for refusal
- 4.4: Distinctive character, descriptive indications, customary designations
- 4.5: Shape of the goods or other characteristic feature
- 4.6: Trade mark application in bad faith
- 4.7: Other grounds for refusal
- 4.8: Telle-quelle protection pursuant to Art. 6quinquies Paris Convention
5: List of goods and services
- 5.3: Subsequent change of the list
6: Trademark protection without registration
- 6.3: Trade mark protection through well-knownness (notorische Bekanntheit)
7: Priority and seniority
8: Obligation to use
9: Duration of protection and renewal
10: The basics of trademark infringement
- 10.3: Preliminary remark: differences between opposition and infringement proceedings
11: Identity of trade mark and product
12: Likelihood of confusion
- 12.2: Dimensions of perception - especially the ‘variation’ case group
  - 12.2.3: Visual similarity
13: Protection of the well-known trade mark
14: Statute of limitations, acquiescence, coexistence
- 14.2: Acquiescence and forfeiture
15: Limitation of the effects of the trade mark
16: Exhaustion
17: Establishment and expiry of the right to the company designation
- 17.2: Establishment
  - 17.2.3: Special business names, in particular business establishment names
18: Scope of protection of company designations
19: Establishment and extinction of the right to a title to a work
20: Scope of protection of the right to a title to a work
- 20.1: Principles
21: Name rights
- 21.3: Scope of protection
22: Internet domains
23: Geographical indications
- 23.2: Protection of designations for agricultural products and foodstuffs under Regulation (EU) 1151/2012
24: Trade marks in legal transactions
- 24.2: License agreements
25: Other business names in legal transactions
26: Supplementary claims under competition law and claims in tort
27: Legal consequences of trademark infringement
- 27.4: Claim for damages
  - 27.4.2: Triple damage calculation
28: Proceedings at EUIPO
- 28.1: EU trade mark registration procedure
- 28.2: Opposition proceedings against EU trade mark or international registration with protection for the EU
- 28.3: Revocation and invalidity proceedings against EU trade mark or international registration with protection for the EU
- 28.6: Appeals
29: Proceedings at DPMA (German Patent and Trade Mark Office)
- 29.3: Opposition proceedings against national trade mark or international registration with protection for Germany
- 29.6: Appeals
30: Procedure for international registration at WIPO
31: Court proceedings
- 31.2: Infringement proceedings before the civil courts
32: Brand conception, strategy and evaluation
33: Checklist: trademark practice
34: Checklist: likelihood of confusion
35: Checklist: interim injunction proceedings
36: Checklist: border seizure

Literature:

Hacker, Der Einwand älterer Rechte im Markenrecht nach BGH „form-strip II“, WRP 2020, 1383
Kefferpütz, Harmonisiertes Markenrecht? Unterschiedliche Ansätze und Ergebnisse der europäischen und der deutschen Gerichte, GRUR-Prax 2017, 519
Starck, Gemeinschaftsrechtliche Harmonisierung im Kennzeichenrecht – Wirkungen und Grenzen, FS »50 Jahre Bundespatentgericht«, 2011, 893

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