Index:
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
U.S. Trademark Law and Decisions
International and Foreign Trademark Materials
The Internet Domain Name Administration Wars
Interested Parties and Organizations
You Be the Judge:  Some Trademark and Domain Name Disputes
General Reference Collections
Join the Discussion

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office     <BACK TO INDEX>

Rules of Practice and Federal Statutes (Trademarks)

Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure

Trademark Registration of Internet Domain Names

TTAB Manual of Procedure

Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

U.S. Trademark Law and Decisions      <BACK TO INDEX>

Lanham Act.

P.L. 107-273, 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Nov. 2, 2002), includes Madrid Protocol Implementation Act (Subtitle D, §§ 13401-13403).

P.L. 106-113 (Nov. 29, 1999), contains S. 1948, Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999, which contains S. 1255, Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act.

P.L. 106-43, Trademark Amendments Act of 1999 (Aug. 5, 1999).

P.L. 105-330, Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act (Oct. 30, 1998).

P.L. 104-98, Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995.

P.L. 100-667, Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988.

 

TTAB Decisions

FINDLAW's search engine for U.S. Supreme Court and circuit court decisions.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Congressional Hearings on Trademark Legislation:      <BACK TO INDEX>

• Feb. 14, 2002.  Oversight Hearing on the "Federal Trademark Dilution Act," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
• March 22, 2001.  Oversight Hearing on "ICANN, New gTLDs, and the Protection of Intellectual Property," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
• July 28, 1999.  "Internet Domain Names and Intellectual Property Rights," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• July 22, 1999.  "Cybersquatting and Consumer Protection:  Ensuring Domain Name Integrity," Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
• May 5, 1999.  Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1565, the "Trademark Amendments Act of 1999," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• May 21, 1998.  Legislative Hearing on H.R. 3891, the "Trademark Anticounterfeiting Act of 1998," and H.R. 3119, a bill to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 with respect to the dilution of famous marks, etc., House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• May 22, 1997.  Hearing regarding H.R. 567, the "Madrid Protocol Implementation Act," and H.R. 1661, the "Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• July 19, 1995.  Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1270, the "Madrid Protocol Implementation Act of 1995," and H.R. 1295, the "Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.

International and Foreign Trademark Materials      <BACK TO INDEX>

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), including Annex 1C: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs).

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

• Trademark Law Treaty of 1994.
• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks.
• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks.
• Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks.

Draft Hague Convention on Jurisdiction

• Archive of documents maintained by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
• Archive of documents maintained by the Consumer Project on Technology.

The Internet Domain Name Administration Wars: A Reverse Chronology      <BACK TO INDEX>

ICANN.
• New TLD Program.
• Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy Main Page.
• Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (Oct. 24, 1999).
• Approved Providers for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
• Search Index of Proceedings Under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy.


House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Documents Related to ICANN.

Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society's ICANN resource page

WIPO Internet Domain Name Process (including Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process April 30, 1999)

A. Michael Froomkin, A Commentary on WIPO's The Management of Internet Names and Addresses:  Intellectual Property Issues.

ICANN Watch.

House Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, correspondence regarding Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).[Due to reorganization of the committee's site, this link has vanished.  I am still interested in linking to this archive but haven't found it yet.  If you manage to locate it, please let me know.]

National Telecommunications & Information Administration archive on "Management of Internet Names and Addresses."

• Management of Internet Names and Addresses (White Paper, June 30, 1998).
• Public Comments on Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses (1998).
• A Proposal to Improve Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses (Discussion Draft, Jan. 30, 1998).


"The Internet Community," Generic Top-Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU) site.

• Establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding on the Generic Top Level Domain Space of the Internet Domain Name System (gTLD-MoU) (Feb. 28, 1997).


Congressional Hearings on the Domain Name System:      <BACK TO INDEX>

• March 22, 2001.  Oversight Hearing on "ICANN, New gTLDs, and the Protection of Intellectual Property," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
• Feb. 8, 2001.  "Is ICANN's New Generation of Internet Domain Name Selection Process Thwarting Competition?", House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
• July 28, 1999.  "Internet Domain Names and Intellectual Property Rights," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• July 22, 1999.  "Domain Name Privatization:  Is ICANN Out of Control?", House Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
• July 22, 1999.  "Cybersquatting and Consumer Protection:  Ensuring Domain Name Integrity," Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
• October 7, 1998.  "Transferring the Domain Name System to the Private Sector: Private Sector Implementation of the Administration's 'White Paper;'" House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research and Subcommittee on Technology.
• June 10, 1998.  "Electronic Commerce:  The Future of the Domain Name System," House Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications Trade and Consumer Protection. [no longer available online; click here for information about ordering print version]
• March 31, 1998.  "The Domain Name System:  Where Do We Go From Here?", House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research and Subcommittee on Technology.
• February 12, 1998.  "Internet Domain Name Trademark Protection," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• November 5, 1997.  "Internet Domain Name Trademark Protection," House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
• September 25 & 30, 1997.  "Internet Domain Names," House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research and Subcommittee on Technology.

Interested Parties and Organizations      <BACK TO INDEX>

The International Trademark Association (INTA).

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

Commercial Trademark Search Services:
    Thomson & Thomson
    TMWeb
    TradeMark Express

Domain Name Registrars
    Network Solutions
    Register.com
    CORE Council of Internet Registrars

Some Domain Name Brokers and Other Venues for Domain Name Exchange
    Domain Collection
    Friend to Friend

You Be the Judge:  Some Trademark and Domain Name Disputes      <BACK TO INDEX>

What's In A Name?
• Amazon Bookstore
• The Star Wars Collector's Archive


Cultural Icons, Part I:  Barbie

• The Distorted $arbie


Cultural Icons, Part II:  Playboy

• and metatags, part I:  Playboy Wins Piracy Suit
• and metatags, part II:  Model Prevails in Playboy Case
• terriwelles.com
• and search engines:  Playboy Fights for Trademark Protection

General Reference Collections      <BACK TO INDEX>

Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, Trademark Law: An Overview.

FINDLAW, trademark reference collection.

Oppedahl & Larson LLP, General Information About Trademarks.

tmlitigator.com.

Join the Discussion      <BACK TO INDEX>

INTA sponsors an e-mail discussion list for trademark issues.  Send mail to subscribe@inta.org and include "subscribe inta" in the body of the message.