Sec. 0.5. This chapter is intended to provide a system of state trademark registration and protection that is consistent with the federal system of trademark registration and protection under the Trademark Act of 1946. A judicial or an administrative interpretation of a provision of the federal Trademark Act may be considered as persuasive authority in construing a provision of this chapter.
Ind. Code § 24-2-1-0.5
Intent; judicial or administrative interpretation
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Serenity Springs v. The LaPorte County Convention and Visitors Bureau (2013)
Most recently applied in 71 F. Supp. 3d 866 - Heckler & Koch, Inc. v. German Sport Guns GmbH (December 2014)
As added by P.L.135-2006, SEC.1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.