American Indians and the United States patent and trademark office: The Native American Tribal Insignia database
نویسندگان
چکیده
The tribal insignia of American Indians offer a distinctive view into the history of these people. Recently, as the result of federal legislation, some of these materials have been brought together, for tribes that are either federally or State recognized entities, as part of the database collection maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This article focuses on the history and use of such images; the policy response by the USPTO to the charge by the Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act (1998) to examine the USPTO’s specific responsibility to protect such official insignia; and the Office’s resulting digital product.
منابع مشابه
Protective Effects of Educational Attainment Against Cigarette Smoking; Diminished Returns of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the National Health Interview Survey
Introduction: Although educational attainment is protective against health risk behaviors such as smoking, the Minorities’ Diminished Return theory posits that these protective effects are smaller for ethnic minorities than majority groups. This study compared the effects of educational attainment on the smoking status of American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and White ...
متن کاملترسیم ساختار علمی پروانه های ثبت اختراع حوزه تجهیزات پزشکی و آزمایشگاهی طی سال های 1984 تا 2014 میلادی از سامانه USPTO
Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to analyze the co-occurrence of the terms of medical and laboratory equipment patents in the United States Patent and Trademark Office between 1984 and 2014. Materials and Methods: This research was an applied study using scientometrics and co-word analyses. The statistical population of the present study included all patents of medical and lab...
متن کامل"C u @ d Uni": Analysis of academic emails written by native and non-native English speakers
The present study examined email communication practices of two groups of students in Iran and the United States to uncover the probable differences between Iranian and American email communication norms. The study also aimed at investigating how power distance in academic centers influences students’ choices of communication strategies in email writing. The use of two politeness strategies nam...
متن کاملDiabetes in North American Indians and Alaska Natives
ancestors lived in North America before the European settlement. In the United States alone, there are more than 500 tribal organizations. In addition to their tribal affiliations, Native Americans are often distinguished by language and/or cultural groups, some of which extend across both the United States and Canada. Contemporary Native American populations live in urban areas and on reservat...
متن کاملThe National Library of Medicine's Native American outreach portfolio: a descriptive overview.
OBJECTIVES This paper provides the most complete accounting of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Native outreach since 1995, when there were only a few scattered projects. METHOD The descriptive overview is based on a review of project reports, inventories, and databases and input from the NLM Specialized Information Services Division, National Network Office of the Library Operation...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Government Information Quarterly
دوره 26 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009