Common-Law Rights in Marks Not Affected

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Commerce and Trade
  4. Selling and Other Trade Practices
  5. Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names
  6. Registration and Use of Trademarks and Service Marks
  7. Common-Law Rights in Marks Not Affected

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Nothing in this part shall adversely affect the rights or the enforcement of rights in trademarks or service marks acquired in good faith at any time at common law.

(Ga. L. 1952, p. 134, § 18; Ga. L. 1963, p. 463, § 13.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Trademarks and Tradenames, § 41 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 87 C.J.S., Trade-Marks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition, §§ 1, 198.

ALR.

- Right of one to protection of tradename which he does not use, 48 A.L.R. 1257.

Common-law copyright in the spoken word, 32 A.L.R.3d 618.


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