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Board Resolutions summarize INTA's official positions on a variety of issues. INTA's positions are adopted by the Board of Directors and are based on in-depth analysis by specialized committees.

Anticounterfeiting

Disrupting Illegal Business of Vendors Who Sell Counterfeit Goods Through Rented or Leased Premises

November 7, 2007

Improvements in the International Legal Framework for Criminal Sanctions Against the Offense of Trademark Counterfeiting

June 20, 2007

Role of Free Trade Zones and Free Ports in the Transshipment and Transit of Counterfeit Goods

November 8, 2006

Model State Anticounterfeiting Bill

September 18, 2006

Measures to Combat Trademark Counterfeiting

March 7, 2005

WIPO Model Provisions for National Laws on Measures

September 16, 1998

World Customs Organization Model Legislation

November 19, 1997

Report on the Enforcement Provisions (Part III) of the TRIPS Agreement

November 20, 1996

Certification / Collective Marks

Use of Certification Marks in the United States

July 31, 1998

Dilution

Appropriate Standard for Establishing a Dilution Claim

October 15, 1999

Availability of Dilution as a Ground for Opposition and Cancellation Proceedings

March 3, 1998

Enforcement

Partial Non-Use Cancellation Actions

November 9, 2011

Guidelines for Determining Who Should Decide Opposition Proceedings

September 19, 2011

Use of Classification in Likelihood of Confusion Analysis

September 24, 2010

Bad Faith as a Ground for Opposition Proceedings

September 22, 2009

Extension, Deferral, & Suspension of Opposition Proceedings

September 22, 2009

Trademark Rights & Business Identifiers

September 22, 2009

Admissibility of Electronic Evidence

September 22, 2009

Adverse Inference for Failure to Conduct Likelihood of Confusion Survey

September 22, 2008

Benefits of Opposition Proceedings

September 22, 2008

Pretext Investigations in U.S. Trademark Infringement Cases

December 3, 2007

Initial Interest Confusion

September 18, 2006

Examination

Revision of Guidelines for Trademark Examination

December 5, 2007

Famous Marks / Well-known Marks

Well-Known Mark Protection in the United States of America

March 17, 2011

Well-Known Mark Registries

November 9, 2005

WIPO Provisions for the Protection of Well-Known Marks

September 15, 1999

“Well-Known” Marks Protection

September 18, 1996

Geographical Indications

Protection of Geographical Indications and Trademarks

September 24, 1997

Internet

Creation of New gTLDs and Trademark Protection

July 8, 2009

Continued Open Access to the Whois Database

November 12, 2008

Support for an Authoritative Root for the DNS and Domain-Naming Systems that Accurately Convey All of the Levels of a Domain Name

November 7, 2001

Anticybersquatting

May 26, 1999

Assignment of Domain Names on the Internet

September 19, 1995

Judicial Procedure

Specialized Trademark Judiciaries

November 7, 2001

Legislation & Regulation

Ambush Marketing Legislation

November 10, 2010

Model Law Guidelines

November 7, 2007

U.S. Federal Right of Publicity

March 3, 1998

Amendment of the Lanham Act to Include Functionality as a Defense and Cancellation Ground to Incontestable Trademarks

February 25, 1997

Licensing & Franchising

Elimination of Mandatory Trademark License Recording Requirements

March 28, 1995

Nontraditional Marks

Proctectability of Touch Marks

November 8, 2006

Protectability of Three-Dimensional Marks

May 7, 1997

Protectability of Sound Trademarks

February 25, 1997

Protectability of Color Trademarks

November 20, 1996

Other

Establishment of a Political Action Committee

May 26, 1999

Parallel Imports / Gray Market

Burden of Proving Consent in Parallel Import Cases

May 8, 2001

Exhaustion of Trademark Rights and Parallel Importation

May 26, 1999

Registration

Relaxation of Trademark Registration Notice Requirements and Sanctions

March 2, 1999

Security Interests

Recordal of Security Interests in Trademarks

March 21, 2007

Security Interests In Trademarks

May 7, 1997

Treaties & Conventions

Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks

November 8, 2006

Madrid System Safeguard Clause

November 9, 2005

Notarization and Legalization Requirements

November 13, 2002

Adherence to the ARIPO Banjul Protocol

May 1, 2000

Unfair Competition

March 3, 1998

Comparative Advertising

March 3, 1998

Validity

Territorial Exclusivity of Trademark Validity

September 22, 2004

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