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2018 Georgia Code 10-1-446 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 10 COMMERCE AND TRADE

Section 1. Selling and Other Trade Practices, 10-1-1 through 10-1-915.

ARTICLE 16 TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, AND TRADE NAMES

10-1-446. Assignment of mark and registration; recordation; fee; new certificate.

Any trademark or service mark and its registration under this part shall be assignable with the good will of the business in which the trademark or service mark is used or with that part of the good will of the business connected with the use of and symbolized by the trademark or service mark. Assignment shall be by instruments in writing duly executed and may be recorded with the Secretary of State upon the payment of a fee of $15.00, payable to the Secretary of State, who, upon recording of the assignment, shall issue in the name of the assignee a new certificate for the remainder of the term of the registration or of the last renewal thereof. An assignment of any registration under this part shall be ineffective as against a subsequent purchaser for value without notice unless it is recorded with the Secretary of State prior to the subsequent purchase.

(Ga. L. 1952, p. 134, § 11; Ga. L. 1963, p. 463, § 6; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1470, § 3.)

Law reviews.

- For article, "Community Defense of Union Free Status," regarding broadening the legal recognition of the interest "good will," see 32 Mercer L. Rev. 679 (1981).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Trademarks and Tradenames, § 10 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 87 C.J.S., Trade-Marks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition, § 253.

ALR.

- Payment of stock subscriptions in good will, 24 A.L.R. 1285.

Right, in absence of self-imposed restraint, to use one's own name for business purposes to detriment of another using the same or a similar name, 47 A.L.R. 1189; 44 A.L.R.2d 1156.

Sale of business or of real estate upon which business is conducted as transferring good will by implication, in absence of covenant not to compete, 65 A.L.R.2d 502.

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