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98th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Marketing
Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
Trademarks
Trademark Clarification Act of 1983
Introduced: October 21, 1983
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Sep 20, 1984
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1213.
Sep 20, 1984
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Thurmond with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 98-627.
Aug 2, 1984
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jul 31, 1984
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Feb 1, 1984
Committee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks; Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-901.
Oct 26, 1983
Referred to Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.
Oct 21, 1983
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Oct 21, 1983
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Trademark Clarification Act of 1983 - Amends the Lanham Trademark Act to state that a registered trademark has not become a generic (common descriptive name) and therefore cancellable because such mark is also used as a proper name or to identify a unique product or service. Makes the primary significance of the mark to the purchasing public rather than purchaser motivation the test for whether or not the mark has become a generic.
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1213.
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