Lanham Act

Lanham Act
Other short titles	Trademark Act of 1946
Citations
Statutes at Large	60 Stat. 427
Codification
Titles amended	15
Legislative history
	Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on July 5, 1946;
United States Supreme Court cases
	Steele v. Bulova Watch Co., 344 U.S. 280 (1952); Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co., 386 U.S. 714 (1967); Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc., 456 U.S. 844 (1982); Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc., 469 U.S. 189 (1985); San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987); Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc., 505 U.S. 763 (1992); Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U.S. 159 (1995); College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, 527 U.S. 666 (1999); TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001); Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003); Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003); Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 572 U.S. 118 (2014); POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., 573 U.S. 102 (2014); B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc., 575 U.S. 138 (2015); Matal v. Tam, No. 15-1293, 582 U.S. ___ (2017); Iancu v. Brunetti, No. 18-302, 588 U.S. ___ (2019); Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., No. 18-1233, 590 U.S. ___ (2020); Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., No. 19-46, 591 U.S. ___ (2020); Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, No. 22-148, 599 U.S. ___ (2023); Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., No. 21-1043, 600 U.S. ___ (2023); Vidal v. Elster, No. 22-704, 602 U.S. ___ (2024); Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers, No. 23-900, 604 U.S. ___ (2025);

The Lanham (Trademark) Act (Pub. L. 79–489, 60 Stat. 427, enacted July 5, 1946, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq. (15 U.S.C. ch. 22) is the primary federal statute governing trademark law in the United States.

The Lanham Act establishes a national system of trademark registration and grants owners of federally registered trademarks the right to pursue civil remedies for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, cybersquatting, and false advertising.