To clarify that service marks, collective marks, and certification marks are entitled to the same protections, rights, and privileges of trademarks.

Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide registered service marks, collective marks, and certification marks with the same protections, rights, and privileges as registered trademarks.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5194 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5194

  To clarify that service marks, collective marks, and certification 
 marks are entitled to the same protections, rights, and privileges of 
                              trademarks.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2004

Mr. Simpson (for himself, Mr. Otter, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, and Mr. 
   Jenkins) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify that service marks, collective marks, and certification 
 marks are entitled to the same protections, rights, and privileges of 
                              trademarks.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROTECTIONS, RIGHTS, AND PRIVILEGES OF SERVICE MARKS, 
              COLLECTIVE MARKS, AND CERTIFICATION MARKS.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the registration and 
protection of trade-marks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions 
of certain international conventions, and for other purposes'', 
approved July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to as the Trademark Act of 
1946) is amended--
            (1) in section 3 (15 U.S.C. 1053) in the first sentence, by 
        striking ``protection'' and inserting ``protections, rights, 
        and privileges''; and
            (2) in section 4 (15 U.S.C. 1054) in the first sentence, by 
        striking ``protection'' and inserting ``protections, rights, 
        and privileges''.
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