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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-645
TRADEMARK MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2020
DECEMBER 14, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. NADLER, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 6196]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 6196) to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide for
third-party submission of evidence relating to a trademark applica-
tion, to establish expungement and ex parte proceedings relating to
the validity of marks, to provide for a rebuttal presumption of ir-
reparable harm in certain proceedings, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, report favorably thereon with amend-
ments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose and Sum m ary ..................................................................................... 8
Background and Need for the Legislation ...................................................... 8
Hearings ........................................................................................................... 22
Com m ittee Consideration ................................................................................ 22
V ote of the C om m ittee .................................................................................... 22
Com m ittee Oversight Findings ....................................................................... 22
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures and Congressional Budget
Office Cost Estimate ..................................................................................... 22
Duplication of Federal Program s .................................................................... 23
Perform ance Goals and Objectives .................................................................. 23
A dvisory on E arm arks .................................................................................... 23
Section-by-Section A nalysis ............................................................................ 23
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ............................. 27
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Trademark Modernization Act
of 2020 or the TM Act of 2020.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
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