15 USC § 1141m - Incontestability
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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s1141m"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 1141m - Incontestability"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "1141m"
section_name: "Incontestability"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "TRADEMARKS"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "THE MADRID PROTOCOL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 73, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)"
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# § 1141m. Incontestability
section 1065 of this titlesection 1141i of this titlesection 1141n of this title
The period of continuous use prescribed under for a mark covered by an extension of protection issued under this subchapter may begin no earlier than the date on which the Director issues the certificate of the extension of protection under , except as provided in .
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**Source Credit**: (July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 73, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)