TARR - see Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval.

TDR - see Trademark Document Retrieval.

Teaching Suggestion Motivation - refers to a test that requires an alleged infringer or patent examiner assert obviousness as a bar to patent validity or patentability to show that the prior art teaches, or that some other suggestion, or motivation exists to combine known elements to form a claimed invention. See e.g. KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. ___ (2007). See also Graham Factors.

TEAS - see Trademark Electronic Application System.

Technical Protection Measures - refers to a forms of Copy Protection that either control access to a work or protect a right of a copyright owner. A technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. A technological measure "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under Title 17 of the United States Code.

TESS - see Trademark Electronic Search System.

Threatened Misappropriation - see Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine.

TICRS - see Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System.

TLD - see Top Level Domain.

TMEP - see Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure.

TMOG - see Trademark Official Gazette.

TPAC - see Trademark Public Advisory Committee.

TPM - see Technical Protection Measures.

Trade Name - refers to any name used by a person to identify his or her business or vocation.

Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System - refers to a system within the United States Patent and Trademark Office for scanning, storing and providing access to images of papers associated with trademark registrations.

Trademark Reporting And Monitoring - refers to a system used by trademark examiners of the United States Trademark Office.

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board - refers to an administrative tribunal at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The TTAB has jurisdiction over appeals from trademark decisions of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings.

TRAM - see Trademark Reporting And Monitoring.

Transfer - refers to an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or any other conveyance, alienation, or hypothecation of a copyright or of any of the exclusive rights comprised in a copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or place of effect, but not including a nonexclusive license.

Triple Identity - refers to a test for the Doctrine of Equivalents. The Triple Identity Test focuses on "[1] the function served by a particular claim element, [2] the way that element serves that function, and [3] the result thus obtained by that element." Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co., 520 U.S. 17, 39 (1997).

TRIPS - refers to the agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property.

Trover - refers to a common-law action to recover damages for property illegally withheld or wrongfully converted to use by another.

TSM - see Teaching Suggestion Motivation.

TTAB - see Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

TX - see Textual Materials.