15 U.S.C. § 1053 — Service marks registrable
submitted 80 years ago by ch. 540 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 72 words · no verdicts yet
Service marks may be registered under the trademark rules, with the same effects and protections. Their applications and procedures should follow trademark procedures as closely as practical.
Subject to applicable trademark-registration rules, service marks are registrable in the same way and with the same effect as trademarks. Registered service marks receive this chapter’s trademark protection. Applications and procedures must conform as nearly as practical to trademark-registration procedures.
Subject to the provisions relating to the registration of trademarks, so far as they are applicable, service marks shall be registrable, in the same manner and with the same effect as are trademarks, and when registered they shall be entitled to the protection provided in this chapter in the case of trademarks. Applications and procedure under this section shall conform as nearly as practicable to those prescribed for the registration of trademarks.
Source credit: (July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title I, § 3, 60 Stat. 429; Pub. L. 100–667, title I, § 105, Nov. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 3938; Pub. L. 106–43, § 6(b), Aug. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 220.)
- 1946Enacted · Act of July 5, 1946, ch. 540 · 60 Stat. 429
- 1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-667 · 102 Stat. 3938
- 1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-43 · 113 Stat. 220
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