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title: "15 U.S.C. § 1141l"
description: "Assignment of an extension of protection"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1141l"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 1141l - Assignment of an extension of protection

## Text

An extension of protection may be assigned, together with the goodwill associated with the mark, only to a person who is a national of, is domiciled in, or has a bona fide and effective industrial or commercial establishment either in a country that is a Contracting Party or in a country that is a member of an intergovernmental organization that is a Contracting Party.

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 72, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)