Excerpt from Registration of Trademarks Under the New Trademark Act In the comparative study of Foreign Patent and Trademark Laws published a few years ago, I was com pelled to point out, in referring to the trademark law of the United States, that such law, as embodied in the Act of 1881, did not give to registrants any remedy against infringers which the owner of an unregistered mark would not have under the common law, and that such law did not provide for giving force and effect to the provisions of the International Convention, as well as to call attention to the fact that such law was in other respects unsatisfactory.