Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17
NUMBER 121.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 1862,
4963, 1865, 1866 AND 1867 OF THE
PUBLIC STATUTES, RELATING
TO TRADE MARKS

III TRADE MAINS.
1t is hereby enacted By the General As
sensbly OF the State Of Vermont:
SECTION l. Section 1862 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
Section 1862. A person, partnership or
corporation, or an association or union of
working men, may adopt as and for a
trademark or trade name any particular
name, term, design, device, label, stamp
or form OF advertisement not previously
owned or adopted by another person,
partnership or corporation, or association
or union OF working men, to designate or
distinguish goods, wares or merchandise
by him or them manufactured or prepared,
or on which the labor of persons belonging
to such association or union of working men
has been put, and may file the same for
record in the Office of the secretary of state
by leaving two copies, cOunterpartS or
facsimilieS thereof with said secretary,
and shall also file Herewith an accurate
description of such name, term, design,
device, label, stamp or form of advertise
ment, verified under oath by the person
or some officer of the partnership, corpora
ton or association or union of working
men by whom it is filed.
The fee for such filing shall be two dol
lars.
The secretary of state may make such
rules and regulations and prescribe such
forms as may be necessary to carry out
the provisions of this chapter.
SEC 2. Section 1868 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended SO as to read
as follows:
Section 1868. The secretary of state
shall deliver to the person, partnership,
corporation or association or union of
working men SO filing such trademark or
trade name, duly attested certificate of
the record thereof, for which he shall re-
celVe fee OF two dollars
Such certificate SHALL in all suits and
prosecutions under this chapter, be suffi-
Gent proof of the adoption of such trade
mark or trade name.
No NAME term, design, device, label,
stamp or form of advertisement shall be
recorded that in any way resembles or
would be reasonably mistaken for name,
term, design, device, label, stamp or form
OF advertisement already on record.
SEC. 3. Section 1865 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended SO as to read
as follows:
Section 1865. A person who knowingly
and willfully sells or keeps for sale goods
upon which or in connection with which is
affixed forgery, imitation or counterfeit
OF trademark or trade name adopted
and recorded as provided in this chapter,
and intended to represent such goods as
the genuine goods Of another person, or as
goods upon which the labor of a member
or members OF such association or union of
ished as provided in the preceding section.
SEC. 4. Section 1866 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 1866 A person who, with in
tent to defraud another person, partner
ship, corporation, or association or union
OF working men, knowingly affiXeS or
causes to be affixed to or upon package or
bottle containing goods, wares or merchan-
disc, name, term, design, device, label,
stamp or form of advertisement, which
designates such goods, wares Or merchan-
disc either wholly or in part, by word or
words, or by general design, which is
wholly or in part the same, either in ap-
pearance or in sound, as the word or words
or the general design of trademark or
trade name adopted and recorded as pro-
vided in this chapter, or who knowingly