15 U.S.C. § 1119
Power of court over registration
United States · Title 15 — COMMERCE AND TRADE · Status: effective
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- 15 U.S.C. § 1119, Power of court over registration, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/440904
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In any action involving a registered mark the court may determine the right to registration, order the cancelation of registrations, in whole or in part, restore canceled registrations, and otherwise rectify the register with respect to the registrations of any party to the action. Decrees and orders shall be certified by the court to the Director, who shall make appropriate entry upon the records of the Patent and Trademark Office, and shall be controlled thereby.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 and title 35 of the United States Code to change the name of the Patent Office to the "Patent and Trademark Office".House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000