There is a lot of lawyer speak in the trademark world. So, we made this handy-dandy glossary of trademark terms to define everything in words normal people use.
- abandoned
- Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
- Allegation of Use
- appeal
- arbitrary trademark
- Cancellation
- cease and desist letter
- classification of goods and services
- collective trademark
- common law trademark
- copyright
- disclaimer
- distinctiveness
- Examiner's Amendment
- Examining Attorney
- fanciful trademark
- filing basis
- Final Office Action
- generic
- genericide
- goods
- goods and services
- in commerce
- incontestability
- INTA
- Intent-to-Use
- International Trademark Association
- ITU
- likelihood of confusion
- Madrid Protocol
- merely descriptive
- NOA
- Non-final Office Action
- Notice of Allowance
- Office Action
- Official Gazette
- Opposition
- patent
- Principal Register
- Priority Action
- prosecution
- publication for opposition
- secondary meaning
- serial number
- service mark
- services
- SOU
- specimen
- standard character format
- Statement of Use
- stylized trademark
- suggestive trademark
- Supplemental Register
- Suspension
- Suspension Inquiry Letter
- Suspension Letter
- TMEP
- trade dress
- trademark
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedures
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
- TTAB
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- USPTO
- WIPO
- word trademark
- World Intellectual Property Organization