REGISTRATION OF TRADE-MARKS.
TRADE-MARK LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1905 (AS AMENDED).
AN ACT To authorize the registration of trade-marks used in commerce with
foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and tc
protect the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the owner
of a trade-mark used in commerce with foreign nations, or among
the several States, or with Indian tribes, provided such owner shall
be domiciled within the territory of the United States, or resides in
or is located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention, or
law, affords similar privileges to the citizens of the United States,
may obtain registration for such trade-mark by complying with the
following requirements: First, by filing in the Patent Office an ap-
Diieasion therefor, in writing, addressed to the Commissioner of
Patents, signed by the applicant, specifying his name, domicile,
location, and citizenship; the class of merchandise and the partic-
ular description of goods comprised in such class to which the trade-
mark is appropriated; a statement of the mode in which the same
is applied and affixed to goods, and the length of time during which
the trade-mark has been used; a description of the trade-mark itself
shall be included, if desired by the applicant or
of pamended 2 2 required by the commissioner, provided such descrip-
tion is of a character to meet the approval of the
commissioner. With this statement shall be filed a drawing of the
trade-mark, signed by the applicant, or his attorney, and such num-
ber of specimens of the trade-mark as actually used as {nay be re-
quired by the Commissioner of Patents. Second, by paying into the
Treasury of the United States the sum of ten dollars, and otherwise
complying with the requirements of this act and such regulations as
By be prescribed by the Commissioner of Patents.
ro, 2. That the application prescribed in the foregoing section, in
order to create any right whatever in favor of the party filing it,
must be accompanied by a written declaration verified by the appli-
cant, or by a member of the firm or an officer of the corporation or
association applying, to the effect that the applicant believes him-
self or the firm, corporation, or association in whose behalf he makes
the application to be the owner of the trademark sought to be
registered, and that no other person, firm, corporation, or associa-
tion, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief, has the
Ae amended bv ap Tight to use such trade-mark in the United States,
of Feb 18. 5003.2" either in the identical form or in such near resem-
blance thereto as might be calculated to deceive;
that such trade-mark is used in commerce among the several States,
or with foreign nations, or with Indian tribes, and that the de-
