Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 22. Trademarks
65 sections
Subchapter I — The Principal Register
- 1051Application for registration; verification
- 1052Trademarks registrable on principal register; concurrent registration
- 1053Service marks registrable
- 1054Collective marks and certification marks registrable
- 1055Use by related companies affecting validity and registration
- 1056Disclaimer of unregistrable matter
- 1057Certificates of registration
- 1058Duration, affidavits and fees
- 1059Renewal of registration
- 1060Assignment
- 1061Execution of acknowledgments and verifications
- 1062Publication
- 1063Opposition to registration
- 1064Cancellation of registration
- 1065Incontestability of right to use mark under certain conditions
- 1066Interference; declaration by Director
- 1066aEx parte expungement
- 1066bEx parte reexamination
- 1067Interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation; notice; Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
- 1068Action of Director in interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation
- 1069Application of equitable principles in inter partes proceedings
- 1070Appeals to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board from decisions of examiners
- 1071Appeal to courts
- 1072Registration as constructive notice of claim of ownership
Subchapter II — The Supplemental Register
- 1091Supplemental register
- 1092Publication; not subject to opposition; cancellation
- 1093Registration certificates for marks on principal and supplemental registers to be different
- 1094Provisions of chapter applicable to registrations on supplemental register
- 1095Registration on principal register not precluded
- 1096Registration on supplemental register not used to stop importations
Subchapter III — General Provisions
- 1111Notice of registration; display with mark; recovery of profits and damages in infringement suit
- 1112Classification of goods and services; registration in plurality of classes
- 1113Fees
- 1114Remedies; infringement; innocent infringement by printers and publishers
- 1115Registration on principal register as evidence of exclusive right to use mark; defenses
- 1116Injunctive relief
- 1117Recovery for violation of rights
- 1118Destruction of infringing articles
- 1119Power of court over registration
- 1120Civil liability for false or fraudulent registration
- 1121Jurisdiction of Federal courts; State and local requirements that registered trademarks be altered or displayed differently; prohibition
- 1121aTransferred
- 1122Liability of United States and States, and instrumentalities and officials thereof
- 1123Rules and regulations for conduct of proceedings in Patent and Trademark Office
- 1124Importation of goods bearing infringing marks or names forbidden
- 1125False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden
- 1126International conventions
- 1127Construction and definitions; intent of chapter
- 1128Repealed. Pub. L. 110–403, title III, § 305(a)(1)
- 1129Transferred
Subchapter IV — The Madrid Protocol
- 1141Definitions
- 1141aInternational applications based on United States applications or registrations
- 1141bCertification of the international application
- 1141cRestriction, abandonment, cancellation, or expiration of a basic application or basic registration
- 1141dRequest for extension of protection subsequent to international registration
- 1141eExtension of protection of an international registration to the United States under the Madrid Protocol
- 1141fEffect of filing a request for extension of protection of an international registration to the United States
- 1141gRight of priority for request for extension of protection to the United States
- 1141hExamination of and opposition to request for extension of protection; notification of refusal
- 1141iEffect of extension of protection
- 1141jDependence of extension of protection to the United States on the underlying international registration
- 1141kDuration, affidavits and fees
- 1141lAssignment of an extension of protection
- 1141mIncontestability
- 1141nRights of extension of protection