Full text: General information about protection of trade marks prints and labels

There are neither oppositions nor interferences with respect to 
marks under the act of March 19, 1920. 
After a trade-mark is registered, anyone who feels that he is in- 
jured by it, may apply to have it canceled. No fee is required in 
a cancellation proceeding. (See Form S, p. 19.) 
Interference, opposition, and cancellation proceedings are con- 
trolled by technical Patent Office rules and equity court rules and 
demand the services of skilled attorneys for their best conduct. 
On the day issued the certificate of registration will be deliv- 
ered or mailed to the attorney of record, if there be one; or, if the 
attorney so request, to the owner; or if there be no attorney, to the 
owner. 
Should registration be finally refused and applicant believes his 
mark should be registered, he may appeal to the Commissioner of 
Patents in person, and, under the act of 1905, from him to the Court 
of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Similar appeals may be 
taken in interference, opposition, and cancellation proceedings. No 
appeals to the court are allowed under the act of 1920. 
Registered trade-marks and trade-marks for which applications 
for registration have been filed may be assigned, but only in con- 
nection with the good will of the business in which they are used. 
The assignment should be in writing and acknowledged according 
to law, and should state the number and date of the certificate of 
registration, or the name of the owner, the serial number and date of 
the application for registration. Such an assignment may be re- 
corded in the Patent Office, and will be void as against any subse- 
quent, purchaser or mortgagee, for a valuable consideration, without 
notice, unless so recorded within three months from the date of the 
assignment. The date of record is the date the assignment is received 
at the Patent Office in proper form, and accompanied by the full 
legal fee for recording. No instrument will be recorded which is not 
in the English language, and which does not, in the judgment of the 
commissioner, affect the title to which it relates. (Forms Y and Z, 
p- 219 
When a trade-mark has been registered, notice should appear on 
the goods in connection with the mark, thus: “Registered in U. S. 
Patent Office,” or “Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.” 
Registrations under the act of 1881 last for 30 years, and registration 
under the act of 1905 lasts for 20 years. Both may be renewed under 
the act of February 20, 1905, for 20 years upon the filing of an appli- 
cation for renewal within the six months next preceding the end of 
the original term. (See Forms T, U, p. 20.) It is not necessary 
to file with the renewal application either the original certificate or a 
certified copy thereof. If application for renewal is not filed before 
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