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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 12 — Virgin Islands [1954]

§ 1643. Import provisions with respect to trade-marks

Statutory text

Section 1124 of title 15, and section 1526 of title 19, shall not apply to importations into the Virgin Islands of genuine foreign merchandise bearing a genuine foreign trade-mark, but shall remain applicable to importations of such merchandise from the Virgin Islands into the United States or its possessions; and the dealing in or possession of any such merchandise in the Virgin Islands shall not constitute a violation of any registrant’s right under the Trade Mark Act [15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.].

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 83–558 § 28(c) · 68 Stat. 587

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1643

    (July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 28(c), 68 Stat. 509.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 28(c), 68 Stat. 509.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Trade Mark Act, referred to in text, probably means the Trademark Act of 1946, also popularly known as the Lanham Act, act July 5, 1946, ch. 540, 60 Stat. 427, which is classified generally to chapter 22 (§ 1051 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1051 of Title 15 and Tables.

Codification

Section constitutes subsec. (c) of section 28 of act . Subsec. (b) of section 28 amended section 3350 of former Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, 1939, and subsecs. (a) and (d) thereof are classified to sections 1642 and 1644, respectively, of this title.

Credits

(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 28(c), 68 Stat. 509.)

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