New Concepts in Trade-Mark Legislation

Authors

Orland M. Christensen

Abstract

The widely favored Lanham Act makes important changes in the former picture, chief of which perhaps is the unprecedented effect now given trade-mark registration. The new act does not alter the common law concept that trade-mark rights must arise first out of actual use of the mark in trade. However, the owner of a valid interstate mark can now strengthen and even expand his rights substantively by registration, and, conversely, his failure to register promptly can result in serious losses.

First Page

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Recommended Citation

Orland M. Christensen, New Concepts in Trade-Mark Legislation, 26 Wash. L. Rev. & St. B.J. 1 (1951).
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