Yesterday, Phil Barengolts and I started our winter LLM class at John Marshall on Trademark Litigation. We have a great group of students, including experienced practitioners (one student works at the USPTO and flies in once a week for classes at JM). In our first session we discussed the importance of knowing your client's goals, investigating, and creating a realistic strategy, especially in our times of high legal expense for litigation. We move on to forum selection and complaints next. My question for you: What makes trademark litigation special, unique, different from other types of litigation? Anything? What do you think?