The Benefits of Federal Registration
As discussed in Chapters 1 and 2, one need not secure a registration from the PTO to have rights to a trademark; however, federal registration affords significant benefits. The PTO maintains two rolls or registers of marks: the Principal Register and the Supplemental Register. Registration on the Principal Register is preferred because it affords the following advantages:
Presumption that the mark has been used nationwide since the filing date of the application, thus allowing its owner to preclude later confusingly similar uses anywhere in the United States
Nationwide notice of the trademark owner's claim of ownership of the mark so that a later user cannot claim that it used the mark in good faith
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