417.300. Dairy products containers--description, where filed--notice, how published--certificate of record.
Dairy products containers--description, where filed--notice, howpublished--certificate of record.
417.300. 1. Any person engaged in manufacturing, bottling,or selling milk, buttermilk; cream or ice cream in any kind ofreceptacle, having the name of such person or other mark ordevice printed, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, painted orotherwise permanently fixed upon the same, may file in the officeof the secretary of state for record a description of the name,mark or device so used; and cause such description to be printedonce each week for three successive weeks in a newspaperpublished in the county in which the principal place of businessof such person is located, or if the principal place of businessof such person is located in another state, then in the countywherein the principal office or depot of such person within thestate of Missouri is located.
2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to issueto the person so filing for record a description of such name,mark or device in his office, to duly attest a certificate of therecord of the same, for which he shall receive the fee prescribedby statute for the issuance of certificates.
3. In all prosecutions under sections 417.300 to 417.360such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the adoptionand ownership of such name, mark or device and of the right ofthe person named therein to adopt and use the same.
(RSMo 1939 § 14088)Prior revisions: 1929 § 12449; 1919 § 12020