Read the text again to fill in the gaps. 1. In the United States, the first federal trademark legislation was enacted in

1. In the United States, the first federal trademark legislation was enacted in ….

2. A trademark appears on the product or on its …, while a service mark appears on advertising for the services.

3. …marks describe a product or service.

4. Trademarks may be granted in titles that identify books or ….

5. When you apply for registration of a mark, you must submit an …, drawing of the mark and sample of the mark as you have used it to identify your company's product or service.

8. Red the following sentences to translate them into Russian:

1. Before investing money in registration, advertising and branding of the mark, domain names a business may want to ensure that there are not others with usage rights greater to its own.

2. Absence of a mark from the database does not ensure that there are not others with priority of rights to use the mark.

3. A full trademark search will include phone books, newspapers, the Internet, state trade name registrations, the USPTO* and others sources.

4. You can obtain worldwide trademark searches through professional trademark search companies.

5. The USPTO database is usually about six months behind showing application and registration status.

6. A trademark search is not a requirement of registration. If you choose to apply without a trademark search, you are taking two risks: –the USPTO may reject your mark you are unaware of and –after application and registration, a party with earlier usage rights may try to assert a right to use the mark, which is greater than yours and to stop your use.

7. If you perform a search and obtain results showing conflicting marks, you would not be able to honestly submit the sworn oath* on the application.

*the USPTO –United States Patent and Trademark Office –Бюро no патентам и торговым маркам, a sworn oath – клятва

9. Choose the right modal verb:

1. Inventions may/must be defined in a non-legal sense as new solutions to technical problems.

2. The author has certain specific rights in his creation which only he can/has to exercise.

3. Copyright laws must/need to protect only the form of expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves.

4. Trademark should/may be granted in titles that identify books or movies.

5. Customs must not/need not to be written down.

6. A visitor to a foreign country can/has to be sure that stealing will be unlawful.

10. Imagine that you are the owner of the company. What name of the company would you like to choose and why? Use the following clichés to answer this question:

Actually...

As a matter of fact…

As regards….

Speaking of…

The point is…

Moreover…

In addition…

It is important to remember that…

It is well known that…

Summing it up…

In conclusion…