Trademark Owner: Person or legal entity who uses the trademark on the goods they produce or in the sale or advertising of the services they provide.
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Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG): Weekly online USPTO publication of trademarks published for opposition before they're registered, trademarks registered on the Supplemental Register, canceled trademark registrations, and renewed trademark registrations.
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Trademark Infringement Litigation: Legal action taken by a trademark owner against someone who is using a similar or identical mark without permission.
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Trademark Clearance Searches: Searches of USPTO database and other sources to determine whether a proposed trademark is available for use.
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Trade Secrets: Secret or confidential information that provide the owner with a competitive advantage.
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Trade Secret Misappropriation: The theft or unauthorized use of trade secrets, such as confidential business information or know-how.
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Trade Dress Protection: Protection for the overall appearance and image of a product or service, similar to trademark protection but focusing on visual elements rather than words. Trade dress excludes functional elements and requires a showing of secondary meaning if the trade dress is extended to the product itself.
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TPostal: Trademark Postal System.
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TLT: Trademark Law Treaty.
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TIFF (Tagged Image File Format): A lossless, archival image file format - a type using G4 compression is used for patent images.
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Three-Year Statutory Bar: A restriction on filing a patent application more than three years after public disclosure of the invention.
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Terminal Disclaimer (TD): A statement filed by an owner under 35 USC 253 (paragraph 2) and 37 CFR 1.321(b) or (c) to disclaim or dedicate to the public the entire term or any portion of the term of a patent or patent to be granted.
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Technology Transfer Process: The predefined steps taken by the research university to assert and protect its patent rights and to monetize inventions where possible.
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Technology Transfer Offices: (also known as Offices of Technology Transfer) an organization within a university or government body that identifies research initiatives that have the greatest commercial potential, and facilitates their commercialization.
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Technology Transfer: Technology transfer is the sharing of skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among industries, universities, governments and other institutions to make scientific and technological developments accessible to a wider range of people who can further develop and exploit the technology.
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Technology Licensing Office (TLO): A department, sub-department or additional entity of a university who facilitates licensing, transfer and commercialization of inventions discovered by researchers, faculty or students of the institution.
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TC: Technology Center.
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Tangible Research Property: Results of research that are physical in nature rather than intellectual. A physical invention rather than an innovative concept.
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Suspension Inquiry Letter: Office action asking the applicant for the status of the issue impacting their application. For example, if the applicant requested a suspension during a lawsuit related to their trademark, the letter will ask if the lawsuit is still pending, has been suspended, or has been terminated.
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Suspension (trademarks): Temporary pause on examination, allowing an issue impacting your application to be resolved. For example, waiting for a potentially-conflicting trademark in a previously-filed application to either be registered or abandoned, which affects whether a subsequent trademark application can be registered.
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