A bill to clarify the circumstances wnder which a trademark may be cancelled or considered abandoned.
Trademark Amendments Act of 1984 - Amends the Lanham Trademark Act to state that the exclusive test for determining whether a registered trademark has become a common descriptive name (generic) and therefore cancellable is whether the relevant public understands that the trademark is functioning as a mark rather than as generic.
Clean Bill H.R.6285 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in Lieu.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
For Previous Action See H.R.4460.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House by Voice Vote.
Passed House by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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