[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4225 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4225

  To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of 
 certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial 
                                 names.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2004

Mr. Smith of Texas (for himself, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Keller, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
Crenshaw, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Foley, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, 
 Mr. Deutsch, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, 
Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Payne, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, 
 Mr. Bonilla, Ms. Hart, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Blackburn, 
Ms. Harris, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart 
of Florida, Mr. Pence, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Engel, Mr. Cannon, 
   Mr. Forbes, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, and Mr. Hostettler) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of 
 certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial 
                                 names.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION.

    Section 211 of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(b) of division A 
of Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat 2681-88) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``by a designated 
        national'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``by a designated 
        national or its successor-in-interest'';
            (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e);
            (4) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Subsections (a)(2) and (b) of this section shall apply only 
if the person or entity asserting the rights knew or had reason to know 
at the time when the person or entity acquired the rights asserted that 
the mark, trade name, or commercial name was the same as or 
substantially similar to a mark, trade name, or commercial name that 
was used in connection with a business or assets that were 
confiscated.''; and
            (5) in subsection (e), as so redesignated, by striking ``In 
        this section:'' and all that follows through ``(2) The term'' 
        and inserting ``In this section, the term''.
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