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S-2 No. 1

COMMERCIAL PRINTS AND LABELS

One of the requirements for trade-mark registration is that the trade-mark must have been used before its registration. Hence, where the deposit copies of a print or label bear a notice of trade-mark registration which indicates that the registered trade-mark includes all	the copyrightable matter, the Office will question whether the depos1t copies are copies of the work is first published. In such eases, in order to determine whether the copies first published bore a copyright notice, we will ask the applicant to submit copies of the work as first published. The deposit copies need not be questioned where the notice of trade-mark registration indicates that the registered trade-mark includes only a part of the copyrightable matter. [March 1953]