Source: http://www.ftaa-alca.org/intprop/natleg/Usa/LIPT15eD.asp
Timestamp: 2017-10-20 10:27:33
Document Index: 161566879

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1118', '§ 36', '§ 1', '§ 1503', '§ 130', '§ 1119', '§ 37', '§ 1', '§ 1120', '§ 38', '§ 1', '§ 1121', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 32', '§ 127', '§ 148', '§ 131', '§ 1121', '§ 1122', '§ 40', '§ 3', '§ 1123', '§ 41', '§ 1', '§ 1124', '§ 42', '§ 211', '§ 1125', '§ 43', '§ 132', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 1126', '§ 44', '§ 2', '§ 20', '§ 133', '§ 1127', '§ 45', '§ 21', '§ 1', '§ 103', '§ 134', '§ 3', '§ 521', '§ 4']

15 U.S.C. § 1118 Destruction of infringing articles
In any action arising under this Act, in which a violation of any right of the registrant of a mark registered in the Patent and Trademark Office, or a violation under section 43(a), shall have been established, the court may order that all labels, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, receptacles, and advertisements in the possession of the defendant, bearing the registered mark or, in the case of a violation of section 43(a), the word, term, name, symbol, device, combination thereof, designation, description, or representation that is the subject of the violation, or any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation thereof, and all plates, molds, matrices, and other means of making the same, shall be delivered up and destroyed. The party seeking an order under this section for destruction of articles seized under section 34(d) (15 U.S.C. 1116(d)) shall give ten days' notice to the United States attorney for the judicial district in which such order is sought (unless good cause is shown for lesser notice) and such United States attorney may, if such destruction may affect evidence of an offense against the United States, seek a hearing on such destruction or participate in any hearing otherwise to be held with respect to such destruction.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 36, 60 Stat. 440; Jan. 2, 1975, Pub. L. 93-596, § 1, 88 Stat. 1949; Oct. 12, 1984, Pub. L. 98-473, Title II, Ch. XV, § 1503(3), 98 Stat. 2182; Nov. 16, 1988, Pub. L. 100-667, Title I, § 130, 102 Stat. 3945.)
15 U.S.C. § 1119 Power of court over registration
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 37, 60 Stat. 440; Jan. 2, 1975, Pub. L. 93-596, § 1, 88 Stat. 1949.)
15 U.S.C. § 1120 Civil liability for false or fraudulent registration
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 38, 60 Stat. 440; Jan. 2, 1975, Pub. L. 93-596, § 1, 88 Stat. 1949.)
15 U.S.C. § 1121 Jurisdiction of Federal courts; State and local requirements that registered trademarks be altered or displayed differently; prohibition
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 39 [§§ 39, 39a], 60 Stat. 440; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32, 62 Stat. 907; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107; April 2, 1982, Pub. L. 97-164, Title I, Part B, § 148, 96 Stat. 46; Oct. 12, 1982, Pub. L. 97-296, 96 Stat. 1316; Nov. 16, 1988, Pub. L. 100-667, Title I, § 131, 102 Stat. 3946.)
15 U.S.C. § 1121a [Transferred]
15 U.S.C. § 1122 Liability of States, instrumentalities of States, and State officials
(a) Any State, instrumentality of a State or any officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity, shall not be immune, under the eleventh amendment of the Constitution of the United States or under any other doctrine of sovereign immunity, from suit in Federal court by any person, including any governmental or non-governmental entity for any violation under this Act.
(b) In a suit described in subsection (a) for a violation described in that subsection, remedies (including remedies both at law and in equity) are available for the violation to the same extent as such remedies are available for such a violation in a suit against any person other than a State, instrumentality of a State, or officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity. Such remedies include injunctive relief under section 34, actual damages, profits, costs and attorney's fees under section 35, destruction of infringing articles under section 36, the remedies provided for under sections 32, 37, 38, 42 and 43, and for any other remedies provided under this Act.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 40, as added Oct. 27, 1992, Pub. L. 102-542, § 3(b), 106 Stat. 3567.)
15 U.S.C. § 1123 Rules and regulations for conduct of proceedings in Patent and Trademark Office
The Commissioner shall make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the conduct of proceedings in the Patent and Trademark Office under this Act.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VI, § 41, 60 Stat. 440; Jan. 2, 1975, Pub. L. 93-596, § 1, 88 Stat. 1949.)
15 U.S.C. § 1124 Importation of goods bearing infringing marks or names forbidden
Except as provided in subsection (d) of section 526 of the Tariff Act of 1930, no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name of the [any] domestic manufacture, or manufacturer, or trader, or of any manufacturer or trader located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention, or law affords similar privileges to citizens of the United States, or which shall copy or simulate a trade-mark registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act or shall bear a name or mark calculated to induce the public to believe that the article is manufactured in the United States, or that it is manufactured in any foreign country or locality other than the country or locality in which it is in fact manufactured, shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States; and, in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestic manufacturer or trader, and any foreign manufacturer or trader, who is entitled under the provisions of a treaty, conviction, declaration, or agreement between the United States and any foreign country to the advantages afforded by law to citizens of the United States in respect to trademarks and commercial names, may require his name and residence, and the name of the locality in which his goods are manufactured, and a copy of the certificate of registration of his trademark, issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to be recorded in books which shall be kept for this purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the Department facsimiles of his name, the name of the locality in which his goods are manufactured, or of his registered trade-mark, and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of customs.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VII, § 42, 60 Stat. 440; Oct. 3, 1978, Pub. L. 95-410, Title II, § 211(b), 92 Stat. 903.)
15 U.S.C. § 1125 False designations of origin and false descriptions forbidden
(2) As used in this subsection, the term “any person” includes any State, instrumentality of a State or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his or her official capacity. Any State, and any such instrumentality, officer, or employee, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act in the same manner and to the same extent as any non-governmental entity.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title VIII, § 43, 60 Stat. 441; Nov. 16, 1988, Pub. L. 100-667, Title I, § 132, 102 Stat. 3946.)
(As amended Oct. 27, 1992, Pub. L. 102-542, § 3(c), 106 Stat. 3568; Jan. 16, 1996, Pub. L. 104-98, § 3(a), 109 Stat. 985.)
15 U.S.C. § 1126 International conventions
(a) Register of marks communicated by international bureaus. The Commissioner shall keep a register of all marks communicated to him by the international bureaus provided for by the conventions for the protection of industrial property, trade-marks, trade and commercial names, and the repression of unfair competition to which the United States is or may become a party, and upon the payment of the fees required by such conventions and the fees required in this Act may place the marks so communicated upon such register. This register shall show a facsimile of the mark or trade or commercial name; the name, citizenship, and address of the registrant; the number, date, and place of the first registration of the mark, including the dates on which application for such registration was filed and granted and the term of such registration; a list of goods or services to which the mark is applied as shown by the registration in the country of origin, and such other data as may be useful concerning the mark. This register shall be a continuation of the register provided in section 1(a) of the Act of March 19, 1920.
(b) Benefits of section to persons whose country of origin is party to convention or treaty. Any person whose country of origin is a party to any convention or treaty relating to trade-marks, trade or commercial names, or the repression of unfair competition, to which the United States is also a party, or extends reciprocal rights to nationals of the United States by law, shall be entitled to the benefits of this section under the conditions expressed herein to the extent necessary to give effect to any provision of such convention, treaty or reciprocal law, in addition to the rights to which any owner of a mark is otherwise entitled by this Act.
(c) Prior registration in country of origin; country of origin defined. No registration of a mark in the United States by a person described in subsection (b) of this section shall be granted until such mark has been registered in the country of origin of the applicant, unless the applicant alleges use in commerce. For the purposes of this section, the country of origin of the applicant is the country in which he has a bona fide and effective industrial or commercial establishment, or if he has not such an establishment the country in which he is domiciled, or if he has not a domicile in any of the countries described in subsection (b) of this section, the country of which he is a national.
(d) Right of priority. An application for registration of a mark under sections 1, 3, 4, 23, or 44(e) of this Act filed by a person described in subsection (b) of this section who has previously duly filed an application for registration of the same mark in one of the countries described in subsection (b) shall be accorded the same force and effect as would be accorded to the same application if filed in the United States on the same date on which the application was first filed in such foreign country: Provided, that—
(3) the rights acquired by third parties before the date of the filing of the first application in the foreign country shall in no way be affected by a registration obtained on an application filed under this subsection (d);
(e) Registration on principal or supplemental register; copy of foreign registration. A mark duly registered in the country of origin of the foreign applicant may be registered on the principal register if eligible, otherwise on the supplemental register herein provided. The application therefor shall be accompanied by a certification or a certified copy of the registration in the country of origin of the applicant. The application must state the applicant's bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce, but use in commerce shall not be required prior to registration.
(f) Domestic registration independent of foreign registration. The registration of a mark under the provisions of subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section by a person described in subsection (b) shall be independent of the registration in the country of origin and the duration, validity, or transfer in the United States of such registration shall be governed by the provisions of this Act.
(g) Trade or commercial names of foreign nationals protected without registration. Trade names or commercial names of persons described in subsection (b) of this section shall be protected without the obligation of filing or registration whether or not they form parts of marks.
(h) Protection of foreign nationals against unfair competition. Any person designated in subsection (b) of this section as entitled to the benefits and subject to the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to effective protection against unfair competition, and the remedies provided herein for infringement of marks shall be available so far as they may be appropriate in repressing acts of unfair competition.
(i) Citizens or residents of United States entitled to benefits of section. Citizens or residents of the United States shall have the same benefits as are granted by this section to persons described in subsection (b) of this section.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title IX, § 44, 60 Stat. 441; Oct. 3, 1961, Pub. L. 87-333, § 2, 75 Stat. 748; Oct. 9, 1962, Pub. L. 87-772, § 20, 76 Stat. 774; Nov. 16, 1988, Pub. L. 100-667, Title I, § 133, 102 Stat. 3946.)
15 U.S.C. § 1127 Construction and definitions; intent of chapter
In the construction of this Act, unless the contrary is plainly apparent from the context--
The term “principal register” refers to the register provided for by sections 1 through 22 hereof, and the term “supplemental register” refers to the register provided for by sections 23 through 28 thereof.
The term “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks.
The term “service mark” means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof--
The term “certification mark” means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof--
(2) which its owner has a bona fide intention to permit a person other than the owner to use in commerce and files an application to register on the principal register established by this Act, to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of such person's goods or services or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization.
The term “collective mark” means a trademark or service mark--
The term “use in commerce” means the bona fide use of a mark in the ordinary course of trade, and not made merely to reserve a right in a mark. For purposes of this Act, a mark shall be deemed to be in use in commerce--
The term “dilution” means the lessening of the capacity of a famous mark to identify and distinguish goods or services, regardless of the presence or absence of--
The term “registered mark” means a mark registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office under this Act or under the Act of March 3, 1881, or the Act of February 20, 1905, or the Act of March 19, 1920. The phrase “marks registered in the Patent and Trademark Office” means registered marks.
The intent of this Act is to regulate commerce within the control of Congress by making actionable the deceptive and misleading use of marks in such commerce; to protect registered marks used in such commerce from interference by State, or territorial legislation; to protect persons engaged in such commerce against unfair competition; to prevent fraud and deception in such commerce by the use of reproductions, copies, counterfeits, or colorable imitations of registered marks; and to provide rights and remedies stipulated by treaties and conventions respecting trade-marks, trade names, and unfair competition entered into between the United States and foreign nations.
(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, Title X, § 45, 60 Stat. 443; Oct. 9, 1962, Pub. L. 87-772, § 21, 76 Stat. 774; Jan. 2, 1975, Pub. L. 93-596, § 1, 88 Stat. 1949; Nov. 8, 1984, Pub. L. 98-620, Title I, § 103, 98 Stat. 3335; Nov. 16, 1988, Pub. L. 100-667, Title I, § 134, 102 Stat. 3946.)
(As amended Oct. 27, 1992, Pub. L. 102-542, § 3(d), 106 Stat. 3568; Dec. 8, 1994, Pub. L. 103-465, Title V, Subtitle B, § 521, 108 Stat. 4981; Jan. 16, 1996, Pub. L. 104-98, § 4, 109 Stat. 986.)