TMEP Subject Matter Index (T) – Subject Matter Index

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) (SeeElectronic filing through the trademark electronic filing system)
TEAS Plus 819.06(b)
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
1. evidence of 710.03
2. relevance in determining descriptiveness 1209.03(a)
3. 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)
1. description of mark 1202.02(c); 1202.02(c)(ii); 1202.02(c)(iv)
2. disclaimer 1202.02(c)(iii)
3. drawing 807.10; 1202.02(c); 1202.02(c)(i); 1202.02(c)(iv)
4. identification of goods/services 1202.02(f) - 1202.02(f)(ii)
5. product design 1202.02(a) - 1202.02(a)(viii); 1202.02(b)(i); 1202.02(f)(i)
6. product packaging 1202.02(a) - 1202.02(a)(viii); 1202.02(b)(ii); 1202.02(f)(ii)
7. section 1(b), applications based on 1202.02(d)
8. sections 44 and 66(a), applications based on 1202.02(e)
Trade name 1202.01
Trademark Act of 1946
1. claiming benefits of, under §12(c) 1603 - 1603.03
2. duration of registrations under 1602.01
3. effective date of 1601.02
Trademark assignment, searching 503.08 - 503.08(a)
Trademark Assistance Center (TAC) 108.02
Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) (SeeElectronic 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
1. contents of 106
2. notification of clerical errors in 1502.01
3. publication in 1502
Trademark searching 104
Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) database 109.01; 402
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
1. appeal to 1501 - 1501.04
2. concurrent proceedings 1506
3. interference 1507
4. jurisdiction of 1504.02
5. 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
1. doctrine of foreign equivalents (SeeDoctrine of Foreign Equivalents)
2. entry of 809.01(a)
3. equivalency in 809.02
4. exceptions to translation requirement 809.01(b) - 809.01(b)(iii)
5. of dead or obscure languages 809.01(b)(iii); 1207.01(b)(vi)(B); 1209.03(g)
6. of document submitted for recording in Assignment Division 503.03(c)
7. of foreign articles or prepositions combined with English terms 809.01(b)(ii)
8. of foreign registration 1004.01(b)
9. of idiomatic expressions 809.01(b)(i)
10. of matter on specimens 904.06
11. of non-English wording in mark 809 - 809.02
12. 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