N.J. Stat. Ann. § 56:2-3

When a name, badge, motto, button, decoration, membership card, charm, emblem, rosette, or other insignia has been registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, no registration or alteration in registration of a name, badge, motto, button, decoration, membership card, charm, emblem, rosette, or other insignia, imitating, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to be deceptive of, a name, badge, motto, button, decoration, membership card, charm, emblem, rosette, or other insignia already registered, shall be accepted, unless the same was adopted and has been in actual use by any regularly organized association or organization mentioned in section 56:2-1 of this title, for at least three months prior to June twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.