A major revision was enacted in 1905, and in 1946, Congress passed the Lanham Act (), which currently defines federal protection and registration for trademarks, and grants administrative authority to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (" USPTO ").

The Lanham ( Trademark ) Act (, codified at et seq.

* July 5, 1946: Lanham Trademark Act of 1946

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Specifically, both trademarks and patents are protected under federal statutes, the Lanham Act and Patent Act, respectively.

' As such, this case qualifies as an ' exceptional case ' and fees should be awarded pursuant to the Lanham Act ...

In the U. S., like trademarks, a product ’ s trade dress is legally protected by the Lanham Act, the federal statute which regulates trademarks and trade dress.

Under section 43 ( a ) of the Lanham Act, a product's trade dress can be protected without formal registration with the PTO.

To gain registration in the Principal Register or common law protection under the Lanham Act, a trade dress must not be “ functional .” That is, the configuration of shapes, designs, colors, or materials that make up the trade dress in question must not serve a utility or function outside of creating recognition in the consumer ’ s mind.

To gain registration in the Principal Register or common law protection under the Lanham Act, a trade dress must be “ distinctive .” This means that consumers perceive a particular trade dress as identifying a source of a product.

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

In New York, an adult theater showing the films was successfully enjoined from showing the film by the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders under the Lanham Act ( trademark ).

" The decision has been criticized on free speech grounds, but the Seventh Circuit has cited it for the proposition that " confusion about sponsorship or approval, even when the mark does not mislead consumers about the source of the goods ," may be sufficient to state a claim under Lanham Act 43 ( a ).

In this Lanham Act case, the Court, when discussing product packaging vs. product design, referred to the type of trade dress in its earlier Two Pesos decision as " some tertium quid " that may be a mutation of product packaging and product design — a " third thing.

* Loevy, Robert D. ( 1990 ), To End All Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Registered and non-registered trademarks are both eligible for protection under the Lanham Act.

Because federal trademark law is derived from Congress ' Commerce Clause power, and not a specific clause in the U. S. Constitution ( like copyrights and patents ), there must be some degree of interstate commerce present for a trademark to receive Lanham Act protection.

* Text of the Lanham Act

* 2004: Group 1 Software Inc., Lanham, MD ; provides software that enhances mailing efficiency, data quality and customer communications.

* Texas author Edwin Lanham was reared in Weatherford, the slightly-veiled setting for his most critically acclaimed work " The Wind Blew West.

On January 26, 1905, the Texas State Legislature approved, and Governor S. W. T Lanham signed, the Alamo Purchase Bill for state funding to preserve the Alamo property.

The Court reasoned that although the Lanham Act forbids a reverse passing off, this rule regarding the misuse of trademarks is trumped by the fact that once a copyrighted work ( or, for that matter, a patented invention ) passes into the public domain, anyone in the public may do anything they want with the work, with or without attribution to the author.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in the decision, noted that the Court has said in the past that the Lanham Act " does not exist to reward manufacturers for their innovation in creating a particular device ; that is the purpose of the patent law and its period of exclusivity ," and that, therefore, claims about authorship cannot be used as an end-run around the underlying philosophy of a time limit on exclusive ownership of a copyright or patent.

Named for Representative Fritz G. Lanham of Texas, the Act was passed on July 5, 1946, and signed into law by President Harry Truman, taking effect " one year from its enactment ", on July 6, 1947.

* Census bureau statistics and imprisonment for debt information is provided by the Children's Rights Council, Lanham, MD 20740 /

Many musicians who became international stars were a part of their coterie of bands, like the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf & the Hallucinations ( with Wolf later joining Geils to form a hit combination ), Skunk Baxter ( later of Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan fame ), Jim Hodder of The Bead Game ( who went on to become a drummer and vocalist for Steely Dan ), Andy Pratt, Jimmy Thompson, drummer Russ Levine and Country Funk whose bass player Jim Lanham was later a founding member of The Pure Prairie League.

In 1987 Taco Cabana sued Two Pesos for infringement of trade dress under the Lanham Act and for theft of trade secrets under Texas Common Law in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Since 1973, Woronoff has been an external editor for Scarecrow Press of Lanham, Maryland.

Nicknamed " Lurch " because of his 6 ' 6 " height ( a reference to The Addams Family butler on the television show ), Bishop grew up in Lanham, Maryland and befriended fellow Junkie Eric Bickel while attending DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he played basketball for legendary coach Morgan Wooten.

Additionally, the bill led to the passage of the Lanham Act of 1946, which provided for the federal funding of improvement and expansion of HBCUs.

Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham was born July, 1846 in South Carolina to James Madison and Louisa de Aubrey ( Tucker ) Lanham in Spartanburg District ( now County ), South Carolina, and named for his maternal grandfather, Samuel Willis Tucker.

When the Civil War began, Lanham volunteered for the Confederate States Army, despite the fact that he was only fifteen years old.

In 1892, Lanham was elected to Congress for the 11th district, where he served for a decade.

The principle underlying this doctrine has been codified as part of the Lanham Act, which permits Concurrent use registration where both parties had used the mark in good faith before either party had filed for a federal registration.

On remand the district court, per the Supreme Court's ruling, dismissed Twentieth Century Fox's Lanham Act claims as well as analogous California state law unfair competition claims.

An unregistered mark may also be protected under the federal " Lanham Act " ( 15 USC § 1125 ) prohibition against commercial misrepresentation of source or origins of goods.

Silver operated his practice, during which he represented Stephen King and served on the Board of Governors of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and as Chairman of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court's Civil Rules Committee, until early July 2005 when he sold it and its building to Cuddy and Lanham, another Bangor-based law firm.

* Capital Bible Seminary, the seminary component of Washington Bible College with its main campus in Lanham, Maryland

She recorded her first release that same month, with bandleader Speedy West on steel guitar, Harold Hensely on fiddle, Roy Lanham on guitar, Al Williams on bass, and Muddy Berry on drums.

* The history of women philosophers translated from the Latin with an introduction by Beatrice H. Zedler, Lanham: University press of America ( 1984 )

The railroad's main branch into Washington opened in July 1872, with stations established at Glenn Dale, Seabrook, and Lanham, among others.

The provisions of Subchapter III are the heart of the Lanham Act, with Sections 42 and 43 of the act setting out the remedies that can be sought when a trademark is infringed.

Giving the album a B +, Tom Lanham with Entertainment Weekly said the " optimistic, lyrically awkward kids spend 10 more happy tracks turning the tables on lethargic slacker cynicism, with Green Day producer Rob Cavallo bridling all that youthful zeal.

* Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography ( with Darrell Schweitzer ) ( Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1993 ).

If the listing of the credits violates right under the Lanham Act, the fact that the violation is pursuant to a contract with a third party is no defense .”

Suppliers of red-light cameras in the US include: Affiliated Computer Services ( ACS ) State and Local Solutions, a Xerox company, of Dallas, Texas ; American Traffic Solutions of Scottsdale, Arizona, 1 / 3 owned by Goldman Sachs ; Brekford International Corp., of Hanover, Maryland ; CMA Consulting Services, Inc. of Latham, New York ; Gatso USA of Beverly, Massachusetts ; iTraffic Safety LLC of Ridgeland, South Carolina ; Optotraffic, of Lanham, Maryland ; Redflex Traffic Systems of Phoenix, Arizona, with its parent company in Australia ; RedSpeed-Illinois LLC, of Lombard, Illinois, whose parent company is in Worcestershire, England ; SafeSpeed LLC, of Chicago, Illinois, and SENSYS America Inc., of Miami, Florida.

* Peace and Disputed Sovereignty, Reflections on Conflict over Territory ( Lanham, MD: University of Press of America, 1985 ), co-authored with Paul Rohrlich and Harpreet Mahajan.

The remedies sought by Plaintiffs include an accounting of Defendants ’ profits from the infringement, an impoundment of the infringing works, and injunctive relief to the extent to prevent Defendants from continuing to copy or sell infringing works in violation of the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act and other laws and to enjoin Defendants from interfering with Plaintiffs ’ attempts to publish and disseminate the teachings of the Rebbe .”( page 4 )

After that Rivers lived with Sheila Lanham, a Baltimore poet.

Later, with the passage of the Lanham Act the United States Supreme Court in the case of Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U. S. 159, 165, 115 S. Ct.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1996 ( edited, with Adele S. Newson ).

* anthology ed & tr Nyanaponika, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka ; revised, with additions & deletions, by Bodhi, as Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Altamira Press, Oxford / New York / Lanham, Maryland / Walnut Creek, California, 1999

** The Reign of Megamind # 0 ( with Travis Lanham, 2010 )

In 2003, Steven Cain became head coach with assistance from Harold Bahr, who took over as head coach from fall 2003 until fall 2006, when players Keiran Lanham and Callum Sigg shared the head coaching responsibility.

* An interview with Richard A. Lanham

President of the United States Barack Obama receives a red shawl from a Hindu priest from Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham, Maryland ( October 2009 ) A joint session of the United States Congress was opened with a prayer in Sanskrit ( with some Hindi and English added ), read by Venkatachalapathi Samudrala, in September 2000, to honour the visit of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.