{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-35-11m","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 35-11m","heading":"Incontestable right of registrant.","body":"Except on a ground for which application to cancel may be filed at any time under subdivision (4) of section 35-11g and except to the extent, if any, to which the use of a mark infringes a mark registered or published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office prior to the date of registration pursuant to this chapter the right of the registrant pursuant to this chapter to use such registered mark in commerce within Connecticut for the goods or services on or in connection with which such registered mark has been in continuous use for five consecutive years subsequent to the date of such registration in Connecticut and is still in use in commerce, shall be incontestable; provided (1) there has been no final decision adverse to the registrant's claim of ownership of such mark for such goods or services, or to the registrant's right to register the same or to keep the same on the register; and (2) there is no proceeding involving said rights pending in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in a court and not finally disposed of; and (3) no incontestable right shall be acquired in a mark which is the common descriptive name of any article or substance, patented or otherwise.","path":["TITLE 35. TRADE REGULATIONS, TRADEMARKS AND COLLECTIVE AND CERTIFICATION MARKS","CHAPTER 621a*. TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_621a.htm#sec_35-11m","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:12Z","sha256":"6389befd70d8611c8763ecc81c622087da90ecf6031e9f0e0ccc0c6313077203","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-35-11l","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-35-12-to-35-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}