The purpose of this Article is to provide a system of State trademark registration and protection substantially consistent with the federal system of trademark registration and protection under the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, et seq., as amended. The construction given the federal act should be examined as persuasive authority for interpreting and construing this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 80-1.1
Purpose
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Window Gang Ventures, Corp. v. Salinas (2019)
Most recently applied in Window Gang Ventures, Corp. v. Salinas (April 2019)
1997-476, s. 2.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.