59.1-94 - Filing and publication of description of names, marks or devices.
§ 59.1-94. Filing and publication of description of names, marks or devices.
Any person engaged in manufacturing, bottling or selling soda waters, mineralor aerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks orother beverages, or medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils,compounds or mixtures, in bottles, siphons, tins, crates or kegs, with his orits name or other marks or devices branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown,impressed or otherwise produced upon such bottles, siphons, siphon heads,tins, crates, or kegs, or the boxes used by him, or any person engaged in thebusiness of regularly supplying clean laundered garments, towels, table orbed linens or other such articles with his or its name or other marks ordevices woven, impressed or produced thereon, and who periodically exchangessuch clean articles for soiled articles, may file in the office of the clerkof the circuit court in which his principal office of business is situated,or if such person shall manufacture, supply or bottle out of thisCommonwealth, then in any county or city in this Commonwealth, and also inthe office of the State Corporation Commission, a description of the name ornames or marks or devices so used by him and cause such description to beprinted once in each week, for three weeks successively, in a newspaperpublished in the county or city in which such description may have been filedas aforesaid, and if there be no newspaper published in the county or city inwhich such description has been filed, then in the newspaper publishednearest to that county or city, and he shall thereupon be deemed theproprietor of such name, mark or device, and of every vessel or receptacle orclean laundered or soiled articles mentioned herein upon which it may bebranded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, woven or otherwiseproduced.
(Code 1950, § 59-191; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439; 2002, c. 858.)