INNOVATIVE NEW SKILLS COURSE: TRADEMARK CLEARANCE OPINION DRAFTING

® Professor McNichol is inaugurating a skills course for Spring 2017 on one of the most common trademark practice situations:  lawyers have to offer a reasoned opinion on whether a business’s proposed trademark can be used.  In order to support the simulations, he has negotiated free access to one of the principal commercial trademark clearance databases.  Rutgers Law students will have an unusual opportunity to interact with real trademark search functions and develop data-based opinions.