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New Concepts In Trade-Mark Legislation, Orland M. Christensen
New Concepts In Trade-Mark Legislation, Orland M. Christensen
Washington Law Review
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.