Trademark Law

• Essays on Trademark Law
• Federal Statutes
• Federal Regulations and Administrative Rulings
• Federal Court Cases
• Treaties
• State Laws

Essays on Trademark Law

Trademark Law (BitLaw)

A discussion of several aspects of trademark law, including definitions of trademarks, registration, infringement, and trademarks and the Internet.

Overview of Trademark Law (Harvard Law School)

Very brief summary of trademark law, including sources of law, explanation of trademark rights, and definitions of trademark infringement and dilution, with corresponding defenses and remedies.

Federal Statutes

U.S. Trademark Law: Rules of Practice and Federal Statutes  (USPTO)

Browsable compilation of major regulations and statutes related to trademarks.  For a comprehensive set of trademark statutes, you can do a keyword search of the House of Representatives’ U.S. Code (USC) database.

Trademark Act of 1946 (“Lanham Act”), as amended (Cornell)

Table of Contents hyperlinked to individual pages of the primary U.S. statute related to trademarks.

Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984 (Cornell)

Sets stiff penalties for trafficking in goods or services using a counterfeit trademark.

Pending legislation related to trademarks can be found by searching THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet, a searchable database of legislative information from the Library of Congress.

Federal Regulations and Administrative Rulings

U.S. Trademark Law: Rules of Practice and Federal Statutes  (USPTO)

Browsable compilation of major regulations and statutes related to trademarks. For a comprehensive set of trademark regulations, you can do a keyword search of the NARA’s Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) database.

Official Gazette Notices (USPTO)

Searchable database of notices and rule changes that have appeared in the Official Gazette. Includes a consolidated listing of the more important notices and rule changes published in the Official Gazette from July 1, 1964, through December 31, 1997.

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (USPTO)

This manual provides practitioners with basic information generally useful for litigating cases before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Federal Court Cases

Search the Opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell)

Enter “trademark” in the search box to identify Supreme Court cases related to trademark law.

Selected Trademark Law Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell)

Full text of major Supreme Court cases related to trademarks.

Treaties

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (WIPO)

Officially known as the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, this is an international treaty on trademarks to which the U.S. is signatory.

GATT: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods (ITL)

Complete text of the section of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade  pertaining to intellectual property.

State Laws

State Trademark Laws (Gregory H. Guillot)

A compilation of state statutes and regulations available online. Arranged alphabetically by state.