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The Trademark Act of 1870 was the first trademark act passed in the nation and grounded trademark protection into Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. The act covered many different aspects of trademark law but failed to cover trademark counterfeiting. After much protest from merchants and manufactures around the country, Congress amended the ...
In the United States, the Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984 criminalized the intentional trade in counterfeit goods and services. [ 1 ] : 485–486 If the respective marks and products or services are entirely dissimilar, trademark infringement may still be established if the registered mark is well known pursuant to the Paris Convention .
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A pair of UGG boots from the United States where the name is trademarked A pair of Ugg boots made in Australia where the name is generic. The Lanham Act is the primary statute governing federal trademark law in the United States; [8] however, as it only applies to "commerce which may lawfully be regulated by Congress", [9] it does not address terms that are used in foreign countries.
Its impact was significantly enhanced by the Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984, [6] which made the intentional use of a counterfeit trademark or the unauthorized use of a counterfeit trademark an offense under Title 18 of the United States Code, [7] and enhanced enforcement remedies through the use of ex parte seizures [8] and the award of ...
A trademark is a word, phrase, or logo that identifies the source of goods or services. [1] Trademark law protects a business' commercial identity or brand by discouraging other businesses from adopting a name or logo that is "confusingly similar" to an existing trademark.
counterfeiting, Lanham Act, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, nominative fair use Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay Inc. 600 F.3d 93 (2nd Cir. 2010), [ 1 ] was a landmark case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit first addressed contributory trademark infringement in the context of online marketplaces.
Steffens and Wittemann dealt with alleged counterfeiting of marks associated with champagne, while Johnson dealt with alleged counterfeiting of a mark associated with whiskey. The opinion was written by Justice Samuel Freeman Miller. The Court did not exclude all possibility of Congress regulating trademarks.