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[H.R. 1505 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1505

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four


                                 An Act


 
  To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of 
  certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial 
                                 names.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``No Stolen Trademarks Honored in 
America Act of 2023''.
SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION.
    Section 211 of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(b) of division A 
of Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 2681-88) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
            (A) by inserting ``or entity of the executive branch'' 
        after ``U.S. court'';
            (B) by striking ``by a designated national''; and
            (C) by inserting before the period ``that was used in 
        connection with a business or assets that were confiscated 
        unless the original owner of the mark, trade name, or 
        commercial name, or the bonafide successor-in-interest has 
        expressly consented'';
        (2) in subsection (b)--
            (A) by inserting ``or entity of the executive branch'' 
        after ``U.S. court''; and
            (B) by striking ``by a designated national or its 
        successor-in-interest'';
        (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e);
        (4) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Subsections (a)(2) and (b) of this section shall apply only 
if the person or entity asserting the rights knew or had reason to know 
at the time when the person or entity acquired the rights asserted that 
the mark, trade name, or commercial name was the same as or 
substantially similar to a mark, trade name, or commercial name that 
was used in connection with a business or assets that were 
confiscated.''; and
        (5) in subsection (e), as so redesignated, by striking ``In 
    this section:'' and all that follows through ``(2) The term'' and 
    inserting ``In this section, the term''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.