2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 417 - Trademarks, Names and Private Emblems
Section 417.300 Dairy products containers — description, where filed — notice, how published — certificate of record.

Effective 28 Aug 1939

417.300. Dairy products containers — description, where filed — notice, how published — certificate of record. — 1. Any person engaged in manufacturing, bottling, or selling milk, buttermilk; cream or ice cream in any kind of receptacle, having the name of such person or other mark or device printed, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, painted or otherwise permanently fixed upon the same, may file in the office of the secretary of state for record a description of the name, mark or device so used; and cause such description to be printed once each week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the principal place of business of such person is located, or if the principal place of business of such person is located in another state, then in the county wherein the principal office or depot of such person within the state of Missouri is located.

2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to issue to the person so filing for record a description of such name, mark or device in his office, to duly attest a certificate of the record of the same, for which he shall receive the fee prescribed by statute for the issuance of certificates.

3. In all prosecutions under sections 417.300 to 417.360 such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the adoption and ownership of such name, mark or device and of the right of the person named therein to adopt and use the same.

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(RSMo 1939 § 14088)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12449; 1919 § 12020