TMEP / Subject Matter Index T

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• TAC (Trademark Assistance Center)— 108.02
• Taiwan, understanding with the United States— Appendix B
• Tax-exempt corporation— 803.03(c)
• TEAS (Trademark Electronic Application System) ( See Electronic filing through TEAS)
• TEAS Plus— 819 – 819.03
  • Adding a class during examination— 819.02
  • Application requirements— 819.01 – 819.01(q)
  • Identification of goods and services— 1402.01(d) ; 1402.02
  • Payment of TEAS Plus processing fee— 819.03
  • TEAS success page— 303.02(a)
• Telephone communications— 709.04
• Telephone numbers— 1209.03(l)
• Telescoped words— 1213.05(a)(i)
• “Ten-year proviso” of §5 of Act of 1905— 1601.04
• Territorial commerce— 901.03
• TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)— 104
• Testimony, requests for, referred to Office of General Counsel— 1801.01
• Third parties, inquires from regarding ex parte matters— 1806
• Third party registrations
  • evidence of— 710.03
  • relevance in determining descriptiveness— 1209.03(a)
  • relevance in determining likelihood of confusion— 1207.01(d)(iii)
• Third Protocol— 1205.01(a) – 1205.01(a)(vi)
• Three-dimensional marks— 807.10 ; 1202.02 – 1202.02(f)(ii) ; 1301.02(c)
• TICRS (Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System)— 109.02 ; 402
• Time between execution and filing— 804.03 ; 1104.10(b)(ii) ; 1108.02(b) ; 1109.11(c)
• Title of a single creative work— 1202.08 – 1202.08(f) ; 1301.02(d)
• Title or degree— 1304.03(b)(ii) ; 1306.04(d)(ii)
• Trade dress— 1202.02 – 1202.02(f)(ii) ; 1202.03 ; 1202.03(f)(iii)
  • description of mark— 1202.02(c) ; 1202.02(c)(ii) ; 1202.02(c)(iv)
  • disclaimer— 1202.02(c)(iii)
  • drawing— 807.10 ; 1202.02(c) ; 1202.02(c)(i) ; 1202.02(c)(iv)
  • identification of goods/services— 1202.02(f) – 1202.02(f)(ii)
  • product design— 1202.02(a) – 1202.02(a)(viii) ; 1202.02(b)(i) ; 1202.02(f)(i)
  • product packaging— 1202.02(a) – 1202.02(a)(viii) ; 1202.02(b)(ii) ; 1202.02(f)(ii)
  • section 1(b), applications based on — 1202.02(d)
  • sections 44 and 66(a), applications based on— 1202.02(e)
• Trade name— 1202.01
• Trademark Act of 1946
  • claiming benefits of, under §12(c)— 1603 – 1603.03
  • duration of registrations under— 1602.01
  • effective date of— 1601.02
• Trademark assignment, searching— 503.08 – 503.08(a)
• Trademark Assistance Center (TAC)— 108.02
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) ( See Electronic filing through TEAS)
• Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)— 104
• Trademark forms— 103
• Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System (TICRS)— 109.02 ; 402
• Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988— 816.02 ; 901.02 ; 1303.01(a)(i) ; 1602.01
• Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act, changes to requirements for maintaining a registration— 1602.04
• Trademark manuals— 107
• Trademark Official Gazette
  • contents of— 106
  • notification of clerical errors in— 1502.01
  • publication in— 1502
• Trademark searching— 104
• Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) database— 109.01 ; 402
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
  • appeal to— 1501 – 1501.04
  • concurrent proceedings— 1506
  • interference— 1507
  • jurisdiction of— 1504.02
  • opposition proceedings before— 1503 – 1503.05
• Trademark website— 102 ; 104 ; 108.01 ; 109.01
• Trademark, definition of— 1202
• Transformation— 1902.10 ; 1904.09 – 1904.09(b)
• Translation
  • doctrine of foreign equivalents— 1207.01(b)(vi) – 1207.01(b)(vi)(C) ; 1209.03(g) ; 1211.01(a)(vii)
  • entry of— 809.01(a)
  • equivalency in— 809.02
  • exceptions to rules for translations— 809.01(b) – 809.01(b)(iii)
  • of dead or obscure languages— 809.01(b)(iii) ; 1207.01(b)(vi)(B) ; 1209.03(g)
  • of document submitted for recording in Assignment Division— 503.03(c)
  • of foreign articles or prepositions combined with English terms— 809.01(b)(ii)
  • of foreign registration— 1004.01(b)
  • of idiomatic expressions— 809.01(b)(i)
  • of matter on specimens— 904.06
  • of non-English wording in mark— 809 – 809.02
  • printing of— 809.01 – 809.01(a) ; 809.03 ; 817
• Transliteration of non-Latin characters in mark— 809 – 809.02
• Treaty or convention relating to trademarks— 1001 ; 1002.03 ; Appendix B
• TRIPs (Trade-Related Intellectual Property portions of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)— 1210.08 – 1210.08(a) ; Appendix B
• Trust as owner of mark— 803.03(e) – 803.03(e)(i)
• TSDR (Trademark Status and Document Retrieval) database— 108.01 ; 109.01 ; 402
• Type of commerce— 901.03
• Type of mark, registration in correct category— 1306.06(c)
• Types of applications— 801 – 801.02(b)
• Types of marks— 1202 ; 1300 – 1306.06(c)
• Types of registrations— 1601 – 1601.06

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