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Decennial filings required - 54 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1515

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     § 1515.  Decennial filings required.
        (a)  General rule.--Every registrant of a mark registered
     under this chapter shall, during the year 2001 and every tenth
     year thereafter, file in the department a report, which shall
     set forth:
            (1)  The name and address, including street and number,
        if any, of the registrant.
            (2)  An identification of the last preceding filing in
        the department with respect to the mark.
            (3)  A statement that the mark continues to be used in
        connection with the articles or supplies specified in the
        registration.
            (4)  Such other information necessary to the
        administration of this chapter as the department may specify
        by regulation.
        (b)  Requirement satisfied by other filings.--Subsection (a)
     shall not apply to a registrant which during the ten years
     ending on December 31 of the year in which a filing would
     otherwise be required under subsection (a) has made any filing
     with the department under this chapter other than a report
     required by subsection (a).
        (c)  Effect of failure to make filings.--On January 1 of the
     year following the year during which a report is required to be
     filed under subsection (a), every mark theretofore registered
     under this chapter with respect to which no such report has been
     filed during the immediately preceding year shall cease to be
     registered under this chapter. Such registration may thereafter
     be restored only by the filing under this chapter of an original
     application for registration of the mark.
        (d)  Cross reference.--See 15 Pa.C.S. § 134 (relating to
     docketing statement).
     (Dec. 21, 1988, P.L.1444, No.177, eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Dec. 18,
     1992, P.L.1333, No.169, eff. 60 days; June 22, 2000, P.L.356,
     No.43, eff. imd.; June 22, 2001, P.L.418, No.34, eff. 60 days)

        2001 Amendment.  Act 34 amended subsec. (b).

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