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 124 STAT. 66 PUBLIC LAW 111–146—MAR. 17, 2010 Public Law 111–146 111th Congress An Act To make certain technical and conforming amendments to the Lanham Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Trademark Technical and Con- forming Amendment Act of 2010.’’. SEC. 2. DEFINITION. For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘Trademark Act of 1946’’ means the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other pur- poses’’, approved July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Lanham Act’’; 15 U.S.C. 1051 et. seq). SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. (a) CERTIFICATES OF REGISTRATION.—Section 7 of the Trade- mark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1057) is amended— (1) by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before ‘‘Patent and Trade- mark Office’’ each place that term appears; (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘registrant’s’’ each place that appears and inserting ‘‘owner’s’’; (3) in subsection (e)— (A) by striking ‘‘registrant’’ each place that term appears and inserting ‘‘owner’’; and (B) in the third sentence, by striking ‘‘or, if said certifi- cate is lost or destroyed, upon a certified copy thereof’’; and (4) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows: ‘‘(g) CORRECTION OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE MIS- TAKE.—Whenever a material mistake in a registration, incurred through the fault of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is clearly disclosed by the records of the Office a certificate stating the fact and nature of such mistake shall be issued without charge and recorded and a printed copy thereof shall be attached to each printed copy of the registration and such corrected registra- tion shall thereafter have the same effect as if the same had been originally issued in such corrected form, or in the discretion of the Director a new certificate of registration may be issued without charge. All certificates of correction heretofore issued in accordance with the rules of the United States Patent and Trade- mark Office and the registrations to which they are attached shall Certification. 15 USC 1051 note. Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendment Act of 2010. Mar. 17, 2010 [S. 2968]