Chapter 22

Application for registration; verification

Trademarks registrable on principal register; concurrent registration

Service marks registrable

Collective marks and certification marks registrable

Use by related companies affecting validity and registration

Disclaimer of unregistrable matter

Certificates of registration

Duration, affidavits and fees

Renewal of registration

Assignment

Execution of acknowledgments and verifications

Publication

Opposition to registration

Cancellation of registration

Incontestability of right to use mark under certain conditions

Interference; declaration by Director

Ex parte expungement

Ex parte reexamination

Interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation; notice; Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

Action of Director in interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation

Application of equitable principles in inter partes proceedings

Appeals to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board from decisions of examiners

Appeal to courts

Registration as constructive notice of claim of ownership

Supplemental register

Publication; not subject to opposition; cancellation

Registration certificates for marks on principal and supplemental registers to be different

Provisions of chapter applicable to registrations on supplemental register

Registration on principal register not precluded

Registration on supplemental register not used to stop importations

Notice of registration; display with mark; recovery of profits and damages in infringement suit

Classification of goods and services; registration in plurality of classes

Fees

Remedies; infringement; innocent infringement by printers and publishers

Registration on principal register as evidence of exclusive right to use mark; defenses

Injunctive relief

Recovery for violation of rights

Destruction of infringing articles

Power of court over registration

Civil liability for false or fraudulent registration

Jurisdiction of Federal courts; State and local requirements that registered trademarks be altered or displayed differently; prohibition

Liability of United States and States, and instrumentalities and officials thereof

Rules and regulations for conduct of proceedings in Patent and Trademark Office

Importation of goods bearing infringing marks or names forbidden

False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden

International conventions

Construction and definitions; intent of chapter

Definitions

International applications based on United States applications or registrations

Certification of the international application

Restriction, abandonment, cancellation, or expiration of a basic application or basic registration

Request for extension of protection subsequent to international registration

Extension of protection of an international registration to the United States under the Madrid Protocol

Effect of filing a request for extension of protection of an international registration to the United States

Right of priority for request for extension of protection to the United States

Examination of and opposition to request for extension of protection; notification of refusal

Effect of extension of protection

Dependence of extension of protection to the United States on the underlying international registration

Duration, affidavits and fees

Assignment of an extension of protection

Incontestability

Rights of extension of protection