Trademarks and Domain Name Resources

Below you will find links to laws and rules relevant to obtaining, defending, and opposing trademarks and domain names as well as filing applications in the United States:

Trademark Statutes (15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.) --United States Statutes passed by Congress on Trademarks.

        Anti-cybersquatting Statute (15 U.S.C. 1125(d)) --Prevents cyber-squatting on trademarks or a person's name.

Trademark Rules (C.F.R.) --Rules Promulgated by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office pertaining to filing and prosecuting of trademarks.

Trademark Office Filing Fees --Current government  fees for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Trademark Manual of Procedure (TMEP) --The Trademark Office's Manual for Handling Trademark Matters for filing, maintenance, oppositions and cancellation proceedings.

Trademark Trial And Appeal Board (TTAB) Procedures --The Rules for Handling Appeals and Oppositions/Cancellations of U.S. Trademark Applications and Registrations.

    View TTAB Procedings online and documents --See TTAB documents filed at TTAB.

    File TTAB Documents Online --Submit Documents Electronically to the TTAB.

Federal Trademark Classifications --Prescribed Lists of Goods and Services to be used in Filing Trademark Applications.

    Madrid Protocol --Nice classifications for trademark applications filed under the Madrid Protocol   

Search Various Federal Circuit Court Cases --Federal Court Cases Applying Trademark Law.

State Trademark Application Info & Forms --State System Parallel Application Rules and Application Forms.

        California Trademark Application Forms --Application, Renewal, Assignement Forms.

General Trademark Information(Wikipedia) --General Trademark Information.

INTA Trademark Resources --("cislo"--trademark) --Materials for Preparing Trademark Applications in the U.S. and Abroad.

File U.S. Trademark Applications --Prepare and file trademark applications online at the U.S. Trademark Offices.  Caution must be used as apparently simple questions and answers required upon filing may have significant and unexpectedly bad results concerning any future trademark protection.  A Trademark Specialist should always be consulted and used for filing to insure the protection expected.

Fastener Quality Act (FQA) for the protection of fastener designations in the U.S. provides a way to register fastener designations against infringement and counterfeiting.  Use the form provided for Federal Fastener Protection Act Registration to record fastener insignias or see the existing list of protected insignias. 

U.S. Customs Registration of Trademark --Once a trademark is registered with the U.S. Trademark Office, it can recorded at U.S. Customs and entered into their database of trademarks which is checked against imported goods.  Customs will notify the registered trademark owner of incoming goods bearing the trademark when they are discovered.

Google Adwords Trademark Complaint Form --  Google's policy is to allow registered trademark owners to restrict the use of trademarks in certain paid banner advertising.  Filing such a complaint can block certain use of your trademarks by third parties.

Mitchell Study on Trademark Litigation database --Our attorneys can attend to clients' intellectual property needs from our Santa Monica, Westlake Village - Thousand Oaks and Long Beach, California offices serving Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties to assist with any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, trade dress or domain name issues, as well as help other lawyers. We are intellectual property attorneys who handle all aspects of clearance, filing, prosecution, licensing, maintaining, and litigating intellectual property matters.

Trademark Assignment Template -- Use this trademark assignment document as a starting point to consider issues to be addressed in the assignment of a trademark application or a U.S. trademark and the complete transfer of these these rights to a third party assignee.

Trademark License Agreement Template -- This licensing agreement document is to be used as a starting point to consider the issues involve in licensing a pending U.S. trademark application or issued U.S. trademark to a third party licensee where the licensor retains ownership of the patent rights.