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...No dealer, manufacturing corporation, company, or agent, shall sell or offer for sale a ball or parcel of binding twine, commonly employed in binding grain, unless there is attached thereto a tab or label describing the kind of material of which such twine is composed and the weight of such ball or parcel.

...Goods, wares, and merchandise made by prisoners in a correctional institution in this or any other state and imported, brought, or introduced into this state shall be branded, labeled, or marked as provided in section 1329.32 of the Revised Code before being exposed for sale.

...(A) The brand, label, or mark required by section 1329.31 of the Revised Code for goods, wares, and merchandise made outside the state of Ohio shall contain at the head or top of the brand, label, or mark "prison made" followed by the year and name of the correctional institution in which it was made, in plain English lettering of the style known as greater primer Roman capitals. (B) The brand, label, or mark requir...

...No person dealing in goods, wares, and merchandise made by prisoners in a correctional institution shall knowingly have them in possession for the purpose of sale or offer them for sale without the brand, label, or mark required by section 1329.31 of the Revised Code or remove, conceal, or deface the brand, mark, or label.

...As used in sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Name, mark, or device" means any word, name, symbol, picture, design or device, or any combination thereof, produced upon, and used by a person to indicate ownership of articles and supplies referred to herein. (B) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or union of workingmen or other organization. (C) ...

...A person who uses in this state a name, mark, or device to indicate ownership of articles or supplies may file in the office of the secretary of state, on a form to be prescribed by the secretary of state, a verified statement setting forth, but not limited to, the following information: (A) The name and business address of the person filing the statement; and, if a corporation, the state of incorporation; (B...

...The registrant of a name, mark, or device used to indicate ownership shall record all changes of the registrant's business address by filing with the secretary of state a written statement, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, of the new address. The filing fee specified in division (U)(2) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code shall accompany the statement.

...Upon compliance with the requirements of sections 1329.41 to 1329.53 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall accept a document for filing and make a copy of the document by microfilm or by any authorized photostatic or digitized process. Evidence of the filing shall be returned to the person filing the document. A certified copy of any document filed under this section shall be admissible in evidence in a...

...The certificate of the filing of any name, mark, or device under sections 1329.41 to 1329.53 of the Revised Code and the benefits obtained under it shall be assignable with the sale of the articles or supplies on which the same are produced and used. Assignments shall be by instruments in writing duly executed and may be recorded upon the payment of the fee specified in division (U)(2) of section 111.16 of the Rev...

...The secretary of state shall keep for public examination a record of all names, marks or devices filed under sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...The secretary of state shall cancel from the register all of the following: (A) Any registration concerning which the secretary of state receives a voluntary request in writing for the cancellation of the registration from the registrant or the assignee of record; (B) Any registration granted under sections 1329.41 to 1329.45 of the Revised Code, not renewed in accordance with the provisions of those sections. (C)...

...The requiring, taking, paying or accepting of any deposit for any purpose upon any articles or supplies shall not be deemed to constitute a sale of such property, either optional or otherwise, for purposes of sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...No person shall use, give, buy, take, destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of, or traffic in, articles or supplies, fill or re-fill any vessel, receptacle or utensil upon which a name, mark, or device filed hereunder is produced, or refuse to return such articles or supplies on demand of the owner, or to deface, erase, obliterate, cover up or otherwise remove or conceal any such name, mark or device, unless consent of ...

...The possession by any junk dealer or dealer in second-hand articles or supplies, without the written consent of the person who filed hereunder or his assignee, of any articles or supplies upon which a name, mark or device has been produced shall be presumptive evidence of a violation of sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...ed, the possession of which, claimed by lease or rental from the owner thereof, except by the written consent of the owner thereof. Any person who finds or receives such property in the ordinary course of business and under circumstances which gives him knowledge and means of inquiring as to the true owner, or who appropriates such articles to his own use, or the use of another person, contrary to sections 1329.41 to...

...Sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall not be construed as preventing the enforcement of rights and remedies under any other statute concerning articles or supplies upon which a name, mark, or device indicating ownership thereof has been produced, whether or not such name, mark, or device has been filed under sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...No suit, proceeding or appeal pending on October 1, 1954 shall abate or be affected in any way by reason of the coming into effect of sections 1329.41 to 1329.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 of the Revised Code: (A) "Trademark" means any word, name, symbol, device, or combination of any word, name, symbol, or device, that is adopted and used by a person to identify and distinguish the goods of that person, including a unique product, from the goods of other persons, and to indicate the source of the goods, even if that source is unknown. (B) "Service mark" means a...

...A trademark or service mark by which the goods or services of any applicant for registration may be distinguished from the goods or services of other persons shall not be registered if it consists of or comprises one or more of the following: (A) Immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; (B) Matter that may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with living or dead persons, institutions, beliefs, or national s...

...(A) Subject to the limitations set forth in sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 of the Revised Code, any person who adopts and uses a trademark or service mark in this state may file in the office of the secretary of state, on a form to be prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for registration of that trademark or service mark that sets forth, but is not limited to, the following information: (1) The name and...

...Upon compliance by the applicant with the requirements of sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall cause a certificate of registration to be issued and delivered to the applicant. The certificate of registration shall be issued under the signature and seal of the secretary of state, and it shall show the name and business address and, if a corporation, the state of incorporation, ...

...Registration of a trademark or service mark under sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 of the Revised Code shall be effective for a term of ten years from the date of registration. Upon the filing of an application within six months prior to the expiration of that term on a form furnished by the secretary of state, the registrant may renew the registration at the end of each ten-year period for a similar term. The renewal fe...

...Any trademark or service mark and its registration 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 the fee sp...

...The registrant of a trademark or service mark shall record all changes of the registrant's business address by filing a written statement, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, of the new address with the secretary of state. The filing fee specified in division (U)(2) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code shall accompany the statement.

...The secretary of state shall keep for public examination a record of all trademarks and service marks registered or renewed under sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 of the Revised Code.