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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 1. SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES · Article 16. TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, AND TRADE NAMES · Part 1. REGISTRATION AND USE OF TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS

10-1-452. Common-law rights in marks not affected.

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  1. Nothing in this part shall adversely affect the rights or the enforcement of rights in trademarks or service marks acquired in good faith at any time at common law.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1952, p. 134, § 18; Ga. L. 1963, p. 463, § 13.

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