Original sentence: 706) permits pre-existing uses of the Red Cross, such as Johnson & Johnson's, to continue.A clause in this law (now 18 U.The Geneva Conventions, which reserved the Red Cross emblem for specific international uses, were first approved in 1864 and ratified by the United States in 1882; however, the emblem was not protected in U.law for the use of the American Red Cross until 1905, after Johnson & Johnson had obtained its trademark
Edited sentence: The Red Cross emblem was officially approved in Geneva in 1864, a year after the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded.The emblem, endorsed by the 16 signatories of the Geneva Conventions on international humanitarian law, is based on the Swiss flag with colours reversed.Though the trademark was registered in 1905, the United States ratified the Geneva Conventions in 1882; Congress did not to enact the enabling legislation for many years, and through lobbying by Johnson & Johnson allowed it to retain its trademark, in violation of the Geneva Conventions treaty ratified by the United States