Trademarks Final Exam Page - Spring 2016

Announcements and messages about the Final Exam

Posted here (posted on 5/3/2016; 8:25 p.m.) is the instruction portion and assignment portion of the final examination. The actual question portion (which is not included) is 6 pages, double spaced.

Please read this document before the exam.

Exam Time and Place

The exam is Thursday, May 5, 2016, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (3 hours), in the room scheduled by the school: 211 TUII

Please be in the exam room by 12:45 p.m. for examination distribution.

Responses to student questions relating to the exam or after the last class session

Q (5/2/2016): I would like to have the course slides 6 per page.
A (5/2/2016): Here are all the course slides: 2 per page; 6 per page; 9 per page.

My standardized exam instructions and documents about how I evaluate exams

Here is a prototype of the exam instructions I anticipate using on the final examination. I contemplate that the ultimate exam instructions will be substantially similar to these instructions, however, I reserve the right to change these exam instructions in any way.

Here is a document about how to write answers for my exams and some information about how I evaluate these answers. There may be revisions to this document during the Spring 2016 "exam season."

Here is a video of a presentation I gave about how to prepare for courses and course examinations. To be most useful, one should watch this video sometime during the first third of the course. Here are the slides used in that video.

Here is a video of a presentation I recommend about how to outline for a course. To be most useful, one should watch this video sometime during the first third of the course.

Example exams

Please note that I generally calibrate the length of my exams with the number of course hours. For a three hour class, the examination will be up to, but no more then 6 pages, double spaced.

I have no old examinations that focus exclusively on trademark law.

The trademark law portions of the IP survey exams below are relevant and representative, but not as extensive as the issues that are likely to be presented in the examination for a full trademark course.

This link provides an example trademark exam for the Spring 2016 trademark course. Please note that the facts section is about two pages shorter than the expected length of the actual examination. This example derived from the Fall 2003 IP Survey examination below. Thus, the analysis provided by the model student answer for the trademark section of that examination is relevant.

"Old" exam materials from my prior IP Survey classes at UHLC

The items available are the IP Survey examination from Fall 2003, Fall 2004, and Fall 2005 and a composite student model answer (posted without any individually identifiable information) from students that earned a high grade for each class.

Fall 2005 IP Survey Examination

The Fall 2005 IP Survey final examination is representative of the final examination I contemplate for the course.

Here is the Fall 2005 IP Survey examination, and here is the composite student model answer. Please note that the composite answer does not necessarily address every issue, nor resolve every issue in such a way as to earn all the points for that issue. Both the examination and the answer should be read in light of the documents I have posted above describing how to deal with my exams.

Fall 2004 IP Survey Examination - Day Section

The Fall 2004 IP Survey final examination for my day section is representative of the final examination I contemplate for the course. I taught both a day and an evening section in the fall of 2004, but I am only releasing the day section exam.

Here is the Fall 2004 IP Survey day section examination, and here is the composite student model answer. Please note that the composite answer does not necessarily address every issue, nor resolve every issue in such a way as to earn all the points for that issue. Both the examination and the answer should be read in light of the documents I have posted above describing how to deal with my exams.

Fall 2003 IP Survey Examination

The Fall 2003 IP Survey final examination is representative of the final examination I contemplate for the course.

Here is the Fall 2003 IP Survey examination, and here is the composite student model answer. Please note that the composite answer does not necessarily address every issue, nor resolve every issue in such a way as to earn all the points for that issue. Both the examination and the answer should be read in light of the documents I have posted above describing how to deal with my exams.