59.1-109 - Timber dealer may adopt brand or trademark; recordation. - Virginia Statutes

§ 59.1-109. Timber dealer may adopt brand or trademark; recordation.

Every such dealer desiring to adopt a brand or trademark who has notheretofore adopted one may do so by the execution and acknowledgement, asdeeds are required to be acknowledged, of a writing substantially in form andeffect as follows:

"Notice is hereby given that I (or we or the undersigned company, as the case
may be) have (or has) adopted the following brand or trademark to be used in
my (or our or its) business as a timber dealer (or dealers, as the case may
be), to wit: (Here insert the word, letter or letters, or figures, or device
or devices adopted.)
"Given under my (or our or its) hand and seal this . . . . . . . . . . day of
. . . . . . . . . ., two thousand  ........................................ 
 ................................................................. (Seal.)" 

Such writing may be proved as deeds are proved in this Commonwealth and shallbe recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county inwhich the principal office or place of business of such timber dealer may beand of such other counties as such dealer may do business in. Nothing in thissection shall be construed to prevent any person who has heretofore used anyparticular brand from adopting the same as his trademark, and when he shallhave adopted it as his trademark as provided in this section it shall applyto the trees and timber heretofore marked with such brand as well as to suchas may be hereafter so marked.

(Code 1950, § 59-206; 1968, c. 439.)