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Title 15 of the U.S. Code § 1026 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94–136, title VI, §601, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 742

Full text of § 1026 from Title 15 of the United States Code.

§ 1026. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–136, title VI, §601, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 742

Section, Pub. L. 92–210, §4, Dec. 22, 1971, 85 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 93–34, May 14, 1973, 87 Stat. 72, created the President's National Commission on Productivity and authorized appropriations for its operation through June 30, 1973. Thereafter, the Commission's name was changed to the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality by Pub. L. 93–311, June 8, 1974, 88 Stat. 236 and appropriations were authorized to continue operations through November 30, 1975, by Pub. L. 94–42, §2, June 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 232, and Pub. L. 94–100, §2, Oct. 1, 1975, 89 Stat. 483. See section 2401 et seq. of this title.

CHAPTER 22—TRADEMARKS

SUBCHAPTER I—THE PRINCIPAL REGISTER

Sec.
1051.
Application for registration; verification.
1052.
Trademarks registrable on principal register; concurrent registration.
1053.
Service marks registrable.
1054.
Collective marks and certification marks registrable.
1055.
Use by related companies affecting validity and registration.
1056.
Disclaimer of unregistrable matter.
1057.
Certificates of registration.
1058.
Duration, affidavits and fees.
1059.
Renewal of registration.
1060.
Assignment.
1061.
Execution of acknowledgments and verifications.
1062.
Publication.
1063.
Opposition to registration.
1064.
Cancellation of registration.
1065.
Incontestability of right to use mark under certain conditions.
1066.
Interference; declaration by Director.
1066a.
Ex parte expungement.
1066b.
Ex parte reexamination.
1067.
Interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation; notice; Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
1068.
Action of Director in interference, opposition, and proceedings for concurrent use registration or for cancellation.
1069.
Application of equitable principles in inter partes proceedings.
1070.
Appeals to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board from decisions of examiners.
1071.
Appeal to courts.
1072.
Registration as constructive notice of claim of ownership.

        

SUBCHAPTER II—THE SUPPLEMENTAL REGISTER

1091.
Supplemental register.
1092.
Publication; not subject to opposition; cancellation.
1093.
Registration certificates for marks on principal and supplemental registers to be different.
1094.
Provisions of chapter applicable to registrations on supplemental register.
1095.
Registration on principal register not precluded.
1096.
Registration on supplemental register not used to stop importations.

        

SUBCHAPTER III—GENERAL PROVISIONS

1111.
Notice of registration; display with mark; recovery of profits and damages in infringement suit.
1112.
Classification of goods and services; registration in plurality of classes.
1113.
Fees.
1114.
Remedies; infringement; innocent infringement by printers and publishers.
1115.
Registration on principal register as evidence of exclusive right to use mark; defenses.
1116.
Injunctive relief.
1117.
Recovery for violation of rights.
1118.
Destruction of infringing articles.
1119.
Power of court over registration.
1120.
Civil liability for false or fraudulent registration.
1121.
Jurisdiction of Federal courts; State and local requirements that registered trademarks be altered or displayed differently; prohibition.
1121a.
Transferred.
1122.
Liability of United States and States, and instrumentalities and officials thereof.
1123.
Rules and regulations for conduct of proceedings in Patent and Trademark Office.
1124.
Importation of goods bearing infringing marks or names forbidden.
1125.
False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden.
1126.
International conventions.
1127.
Construction and definitions; intent of chapter.
1128.
Repealed.
1129.
Transferred.

        

SUBCHAPTER IV—THE MADRID PROTOCOL

1141.
Definitions.
1141a.
International applications based on United States applications or registrations.
1141b.
Certification of the international application.
1141c.
Restriction, abandonment, cancellation, or expiration of a basic application or basic registration.
1141d.
Request for extension of protection subsequent to international registration.
1141e.
Extension of protection of an international registration to the United States under the Madrid Protocol.
1141f.
Effect of filing a request for extension of protection of an international registration to the United States.
1141g.
Right of priority for request for extension of protection to the United States.
1141h.
Examination of and opposition to request for extension of protection; notification of refusal.
1141i.
Effect of extension of protection.
1141j.
Dependence of extension of protection to the United States on the underlying international registration.
1141k.
Duration, affidavits and fees.
1141l.
Assignment of an extension of protection.
1141m.
Incontestability.
1141n.
Rights of extension of protection.

        

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

The Trade-Mark Act of 1905 superseded the Trade-Mark Act of Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 138, 21 Stat. 502, entitled "An Act to authorize the registration of trade-marks and protect the same," and also act Aug. 5, 1882, ch. 393, 22 Stat. 298, entitled "An Act relating to the registration of trade marks". Former section 109 of this title repealed all inconsistent acts and parts of acts, except so far as they might apply to certificates of registration issued under the Trade-Mark Act of Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 138, and act Aug. 5, 1882, ch. 393.


Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

This chapter, act July 5, 1946, ch. 540, 60 Stat. 427, became effective one year from July 5, 1946, and repealed chapter 3 of this title as of that date. See notes under section 1051 of this title.

SUBCHAPTER I—THE PRINCIPAL REGISTER

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