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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 539, 540-JULY 3, 5, 1946 SEC. 4. No appointment under this Act shall be made after the expiration of two years after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 5. The second paragraph of section 32 of the Act entitled "An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes", approved May 24, 1924 (46 Stat. 1214), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "The correspondence and records of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel shall be confidential except to the President, the Secretary of State, the members of the Board of Foreign Service Personnel, the Assistant Secretary of State supervising the division, the legislative and appropriations committees of the Congress charged with legis- lating for and appropriating for the Department of State, or repre- sentatives duly authorized by such committees, and such employees of the Department of State as may be assigned to work on such correspondence and records." Approved July 3, 1946. [CHAPTER 540] AN ACT To provide for the registration and protection of trade-marks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-THE PRINCIPAL REGISTER SECTION 1. The owner of a trade-mark used in commerce may reg- ister his trade-mark under this Act on the principal register hereby established: (a) By filing in the Patent Office- (1) a written application, in such form as may be prescribed by the Commissioner, verified by the applicant, or by a member of the firm or an officer of the corporation or association applying, specifying applicant's domicile and citizenship, the date of applicant's first use of the mark, the date of applicant's first use of the mark in commerce, the goods in connection with which the mark is used and the mode or manner in which the mark is used in connection with such goods, and including a statement to the effect that the person making the verification believes himself, or the firm, corporation, or association in whose behalf he makes the verification, to be the owner of the mark sought to be reg- istered, that the mark is in use in commerce, and that no other person, firm, corporation, or association, to the best of his knowl- edge and belief, has the right to use such mark in commerce either in the identical form thereof or in such near resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive: Provided, That in the case of every application claiming concurrent use the applicant shall state exceptions to his claim of exclusive use, in which he shall specify, to the extent of his knowledge, any concurrent use by others, the goods or services in connection with which and the areas in which each concurrent use exists, the periods of each use, and the goods and area for which the applicant desires registration; (2) a drawing of the mark; and (3) such number of specimens or facsimiles of the mark as actually used as may be required by the Commissioner. (b) By paying into the Patent Office the filing fee. 427 Time limitation. 22 U. S.C.. 23h. Post, p. 1039. Confidential corre- spondence and rec- ords. July 5, 1946 [H. R. 1654] [Public Law 489] Trade-marks. Post, p. 568. Application claim- ing concurrent use.

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