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Trademark
Trademark: any word, phrase, symbol, or design identifying the source of goods or services; the most widely used intellectual property right, protected through national registration and the Madrid System, with rights tied to specific goods.
Trademark attorney
Trademark attorney: a lawyer handling trademark clearance, USPTO registration, and enforcement. In the U.S., any bar-admitted attorney may practice before the USPTO; foreign-domiciled applicants must retain U.S.-licensed counsel.
Trademark symbol
Trademark symbol: the notices ™, ℠, and ® placed beside marks. ™/℠ signal unregistered claims to goods/services marks; ® is legally reserved for registered trademarks.
Trafficante crime family
Trafficante crime family: Tampa, Florida Mafia family led by Santo Trafficante Sr. and Jr., at its peak from the 1940s to the 1960s, built on bolita gambling, Cuba casinos, and CIA-linked Castro plots.
Trafficking of children
Trafficking of children, or child trafficking, is recruitment, transport, or receipt of under-18s for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol (185 parties). Children were 38% of detected victims in 2022; risks include poverty, conflict, migration, and technology-facilitated abuse.
Trail Smelter dispute
The Trail Smelter dispute was a Canada-US transboundary pollution arbitration (awards 1938 and 1941) over sulphur dioxide from the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company smelter at Trail, British Columbia, damaging Washington farmland; its no-harm dictum founded international environmental law.
Tranquil Salvador III
Tranquil Gervacio S. Salvador III (born 1967) is a Filipino lawyer, Corona impeachment defense spokesperson, senior partner at Romulo law office, dean, bar examiner, author of Criminal Procedure, and Manila Bankers Life chairman.
Transformation doctrine (international law)
The transformation doctrine is the dualist rule in international law that ratified treaties bind a state externally but become enforceable domestically only after national legislation.
Transitional justice
Transitional justice is the set of judicial and non-judicial processes a society uses to come to terms with large-scale past abuses, defined by the United Nations in 2004.
Transmutation agreement
Transmutation agreement: written interspousal agreement changing property character (community to separate, separate to community, or between spouses' separate estates), governed in California by Family Code §§850 and 852(a), requiring an express written declaration accepted by the adversely affected spouse.
Transparency and publicity in international arbitration
Transparency and publicity in international arbitration describes the shift from confidential proceedings toward public access, driven by the 2014 UNCITRAL Transparency Rules and 2022 ICSID Rules in investment treaty arbitration.
Travel requirements for Polish citizens
Travel requirements for Polish citizens: EU and Schengen travel with passport or national ID card, US Visa Waiver Program entry since November 11, 2019 with ESTA, ID-card-only neighboring countries, and Henley passport rankings near the top.
Travis R. McDonough
Travis R. McDonough, born Travis Randall McDonough in 1972, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Treason
Treason is the crime of betraying one's country by levying war against it or aiding its enemies. Also covered under related terms such as high treason and the Treason Act 1351, it is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution and requires two-witness proof.
Treason laws in the United States
Treason under United States law: the only crime defined in the Constitution, limited to levying war or aiding enemies, proven by two witnesses, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2381, rarely prosecuted.
Treason Trial
The Treason Trial (1956–1961) was a South African prosecution in which 156 anti-apartheid leaders, including Nelson Mandela, were charged with high treason under the Suppression of Communism Act; all were acquitted.
Treaties and Other International Acts Series
The Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) is the official treaty series of the United States, published by the Department of State since 1945 as legal proof of treaties.
Treaties between major powers
Treaties between major powers compares how bilateral agreements between large states, including alliances, friendship pacts, arms-control accords, and trade agreements, are structured, ratified, and studied across pairs.
Treaties between Rome and Carthage
Roman-Carthaginian treaties of friendship recorded by Polybius (Histories 3): dated 509/508, 348, and 279 BC, governing trade limits, Latium, mutual aid, and refuting Philinus's alleged fourth treaty.
Treaties of Berwick
The Treaties of Berwick are three Anglo-Scottish agreements signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed: David II's ransom in 1357, an Elizabethan alliance in 1560, and a league in 1586.
Treaties of Constantinople
The Treaties of Constantinople are a family of agreements signed at Constantinople, including the Russo-Ottoman peace treaties of 1700 and 1879 and the 1888 Suez Canal Convention.
Treaties of El Pardo
The Treaties of El Pardo are agreements signed or ratified at the Royal Palace of El Pardo in the eighteenth century, between Spain, Britain, France, and Portugal.
Treaties of Erzurum
Treaties of Erzurum: two Ottoman-Qajar Persian agreements of 1823 and 31 May 1847 ending the 1821-23 war and fixing the Ottoman-Iranian border principles, including Shatt al-Arab sovereignty and Muhammara.
Treaties of London
The Treaties of London are a family of distinct international agreements concluded in London, including the 1827 treaty on Greek independence, the 1867 Luxembourg neutrality settlement, and the 1913 Balkan peace treaty.
Treaties of the 1820s
The treaties of the 1820s were predominantly bilateral agreements, a threshold decade before treaty-making rose steeply, marked by the Adams–Onís Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine.
Treaties of the 1870s
The treaties of the 1870s are the international agreements of 1870 to 1879 that reshaped the European order, including the Treaty of Frankfurt and the Treaty of Berlin.
Treaties of the 1980s
Treaties of the 1980s centers on the 1987 INF Treaty, in which the United States and Soviet Union agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear missiles.
Treaties of the Confederate States of America
The Treaties of the Confederate States of America were nine treaties, all concluded with Native American tribes in Indian Territory between July and October 1861, mostly negotiated by Albert Pike.
Treaties of the European Union
Treaties of the European Union: the binding agreements (TEU, TFEU, Euratom Treaty, Charter) that create the EU, define its competences and institutions, and are amended by treaties from Maastricht (1993) to Lisbon (2009).
Treaties of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The treaties of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth are the international agreements of the dual Polish-Lithuanian state, from the Union of Lublin in 1569 to the partitions ending it in 1795.