Excerpt from How to Choose and Protect a Trademark Mr. Symons is an Examiner in the Interference Department of the Patent Office. He has held this position for a number of years, and was appointed after five years of experience on the Board of Pen sion Appeals. In this office he wrote decisions in pension and bounty land cases for the Secretary of the Interior. The State of Ohio can claim Mr. Symons as one of her sons. He was born in Cleveland, and after a high school training taught school for three years. Appreciating the tremendous advantages of a law training, he accepted a civil service position in Washington, D. C., in order to enroll in the law department of Columbian University, now George Washington University. Here he received the de gree of Bachelor of Laws, and after a post-graduate course the degree of Master of Laws. Later he qualified for the degree of Master of Patent Law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.