BNA Books' New 2010 Cumulative Supplement to Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition Gives Product Comparisons and Citations to Unpublished TTAB Decisions

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, has announced the publication of the 2010 Cumulative Supplement to Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition.

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One of the biggest problems facing trademark attorneys who deal with selecting new trademarks, prosecuting trademark applications in the PTO, or litigating trademark rights is determining whether a client's mark used to identify a particular product might be "confusingly similar" to another similar mark used to identify other products. BNA Books' Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition is the only desktop reference that guides practitioners through the reported decisions of the courts and the TTAB's findings on similarity of products for trademark uses—and it has been for two decades. This handy reference covers 81 years of Board decisions.

Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition covers virtually every case reported by the courts and the TTAB that is significant in regard to Trademark comparisons since 1929. All of the product comparisons from the book are provided on an accompanying CD-ROM, allowing the reader to search these comparisons electronically and link, in most cases, to the full text decisions either on the USPTO's TTAB Decisions website, or for BNA subscribers, on BNA's IP Library on the web.

To help practitioners do 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 products are then aggregated by Class number so that users can more easily find synonymous product terms and closely similar products. Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition is a convenient and readily accessible source of data that will be useful in trademark infringement proceedings and for trademark registration matters. This data will permit the user to identify and locate virtually all decided cases that have compared products of interest to the user, with other products for trademark purposes. Citations are provided for all such cases. Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition contains more than 60,000 product comparisons by the courts and TTAB.

The 2010 Cumulative Supplement covers TTAB proceedings for 2008–2009 and contains thousands of new product comparisons. The accompanying CD fully incorporates this new data with all the comparisons in the Second Edition, giving one seamless datafile spanning 81 years of TTAB action, thus making research by product, citation, or holding of the board, and review of full text decisions, the easiest and most efficient possible.

The 2010 Cumulative Supplement to Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition and its main volume are edited by Francis M. Pinckney. David R. Higgins is a contributing author to the Second Edition. Mr. Pinckney (retired), was most recently with the firm K&L Gates, in Charlotte, NC. Mr. Higgins is with the firm of Tillman Wright, PLLC, in Charlotte, NC.

BNA is a leading private publisher of news and information products for professionals in law and business. In addition to the Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, BNA's Book Division publishes Copyright Law Deskbook; Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law; Trademark Infringement Remedies; and other titles in legal specialties. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to [email protected]. The BNA Books website, including an online catalog, can be found at bnabooks.com.

The 2010 Cumulative Supplement to Products Comparison Manual for Trademark Users, Second Edition may be purchased alone (Order #1899-PR10/$205.00 plus tax, shipping, and handling) or with the main volume (2008/Order #9899-PR10/$455.00, plus tax, shipping, and handling) from BNA Books, PO Box 7814, Edison, NJ 08818-7814. Telephone orders: 1-800-960-1220. Fax orders: 1-732-346-1624. A 10% discount is available on print copies of books when ordering from the website at bnabooks.com. Please note that discounts cannot be combined.

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