Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions

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set of legal provisions

The Trademark Act of 1946, commonly known as the Lanham Act, is the primary federal statute governing trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition in the United States.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Lanham Act	3
Section 14 of the Lanham Act	1
Section 15 of the Lanham Act	1
Section 7 of the Lanham Act	1
Section 8 of the Lanham Act	1
Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions canonical	1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	set of legal provisions ⓘ
address	assignment of trademarks ⓘ importation of goods bearing infringing marks ⓘ licensing of trademarks ⓘ recordation of trademark assignments ⓘ use of marks on the Principal Register ⓘ use of marks on the Supplemental Register ⓘ
allocate	burdens of proof in trademark infringement actions ⓘ
codifiedIn	Title 15 of the United States Code ⓘ
define	abandonment of mark ⓘ certification mark ⓘ collective mark ⓘ dilution ⓘ false advertising ⓘ false designation of origin ⓘ service mark ⓘ trademark ⓘ use in commerce ⓘ
enforcedBy	federal judiciary of the United States ⓘ surface form: federal courts of the United States
govern	federal registration of service marks ⓘ federal registration of trademarks ⓘ
implementedBy	United States Patent and Trademark Office ⓘ
include	Section 1 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 10 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Section 14 of the Lanham Act Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Section 15 of the Lanham Act Section 2 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 3 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 32 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 4 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 43(c) of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 45 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Section 5 of the Lanham Act ⓘ Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Section 7 of the Lanham Act Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Section 8 of the Lanham Act Section 9 of the Lanham Act ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States federal law ⓘ
legalBasisFor	federal trademark registration system ⓘ
partOf	Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lanham Act
protect	consumers from confusion about source of goods ⓘ owners of marks from misappropriation of goodwill ⓘ
provide	civil causes of action for dilution of famous marks ⓘ civil causes of action for false advertising ⓘ civil causes of action for false designation of origin ⓘ civil causes of action for trademark infringement ⓘ remedies including damages ⓘ remedies including destruction of infringing articles ⓘ remedies including injunctions ⓘ remedies including profits ⓘ
regulates	service marks ⓘ trademarks ⓘ unfair competition ⓘ
setOut	grounds for cancellation of registration ⓘ grounds for refusal of registration ⓘ incontestability requirements ⓘ procedures for concurrent use registration ⓘ procedures for opposition to registration ⓘ requirements for maintaining registration ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions
Description of subject: The Trademark Act of 1946, commonly known as the Lanham Act, is the primary federal statute governing trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition in the United States.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Title 15 of the United States Code → contains → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions ⓘ

Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions → partOf → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lanham Act

Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions → include → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Section 7 of the Lanham Act

Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions → include → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Section 8 of the Lanham Act

Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions → include → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Section 14 of the Lanham Act

Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions → include → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Section 15 of the Lanham Act

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board → legalBasis → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lanham Act

Trademark Electronic Application System → associatedWithLaw → Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lanham Act