Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

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• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board — The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (or TTAB ) is a body within the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) responsible for hearing and deciding certain kinds of cases involving trademarks. These include appeals from decisions by USPTO …   Wikipedia

• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences — The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) is a body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which decides issues of patentability. If an applicant for an invention cannot convince a patent examiner that they are… …   Wikipedia

• Trademark — For other uses, see Trademark (disambiguation). For guidelines on using trademarks within Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). Intellectual property law …   Wikipedia

• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure — The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (abbreviated TMEP) is a manual published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for use by trademark attorneys and trademark examiners. It describes all of the laws and regulations… …   Wikipedia

• Trademark Official Gazette — The Trademark Official Gazette is a weekly publication of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which publishes newly registered trademarks. Once a trademark application has been examined by a USPTO examining attorney and is found …   Wikipedia

• United States Patent and Trademark Office — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual… …   Wikipedia

• Sound trademark — A sound trademark is a non conventional trademark where sound is used to perform the trademark function of uniquely identifying the commercial origin of products or services.In recent times sounds have been increasingly used as trademarks in the… …   Wikipedia

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