USE OF CERTIFICATION MARKS FOR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES.

SEC. 301. USE OF CERTIFICATION MARKS FOR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES. Section 14 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes”, approved July 5, 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1064) (commonly referred to as the Trademark Act of 1946) is amended by adding at the end the following: “Nothing in paragraph (5) shall be deemed to prohibit the registrant from using its certification mark in advertising or promoting recognition of the certification program or of the goods or services meeting the certification standards of the registrant. Such uses of the certification mark shall not be grounds for cancellation under paragraph (5), so long as the registrant does not itself produce, manufacture, or sell any of the 112 STAT. 3071certified goods or services to which its identical certification mark is applied.”.