THE COMMITTEES ON PATENTS SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2679 A BILL TO PROTECT TRADE-MARKS USED IN COMMERCE, TO 29798 JANUARY 20 AND 21, 1925 Printed for the use of the Committees on Patents WASHINGTON 1925 REGISTRATION OF TRADE-MARKS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, The joint committee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in room 210 Senate Office Building, Senator Richard P. Ernst (chairman Senate Committee on Patents) presiding. Present: Senators Ernst (chairman), Metcalf, and Shipstead. Present also: Representatives Lampert (chairman House Committee on Patents), Perkins, Wefald, Reid of Illinois, Lanham, Hammer, Cook, and Reed of Arkansas. Present also: Thomas E. Robertson, Commissioner of Patents; Karl Fenning, Assistant Commissioner of Patents; A. C. Paul, chairman, section of patent, trade-mark and copyright law of the American Bar Association, Minneapolis, Minn.; Edward S. Rogers, chairman trade-mark committee, American Bar Association, Chicago, Ill.; William L. Symons, member of the committee of the American Bar Association to revise trade-mark laws, Washington, D. C.; Arthur C. Fraser, chairman committee on trade-mark legislation of the New York Patent Law Association, 170 Broadway, New York City; Bernard A. Kosicki, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce; J. T. Newton, exCommissioner of Patents, and member of Washington Branch of American Patent Law Association, Washington, D. C.; William W. Dodge, 724 Ninth Street, NW., Washington, D. C.; O. R. Barnett, attorney at law, Chicago, Ill.; H. H. Byrne, representing the American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C.; Arthur William Barber, representing United States Trade-Mark Association and clients, New York City; L. D. Underwood, vice chairman laws and rules committee of the American Patent Law Association, McLachlen Building, Washington, D. C.; Henry C. Thomson, representing the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Mass.; Robert Watson, Washington, D. C.; and Robert N. Zacharias, Ouray Building, Eighth and G Streets NW., Washington, D. C.; and Arthur P. Greeley, Washington Loan & Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, I wish to make a short statement before we begin the hearings. This joint hearing of the Senate and House Committees on Patents is held in reference to what is known as S. 2679, which I introduced, and H. R. 8637, known as the Lampert bill, both relating to trade-marks; and the meeting follows a suggestion by representatives of the American Bar Association, the New York Patent Law 1 |