legislation: 98-hr-4460
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| 98-hr-4460 | 98 | hr | 4460 | A bill to clarify the circumstances under which a trademark may be canceled or considered abandoned. | Commerce | 1983-11-17 | 1984-09-20 | Clean Bill H.R.6285 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in Lieu. | House | Rep. Kastenmeier, Robert W. [D-WI-2] | WI | D | K000020 | 4 | 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 a majority of the relevant public understands that the trademark is functioning as a mark rather than as a generic. | 2025-01-16T12:12:20Z |