Application of International Nickel Company, Inc

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

The parties agree that one purpose of the Trade-Mark Act of 1946, popularly known as the Lanham Act, was to rid the Patent Office of trademarks that were not being used. To effect that result Congress incorporated Section 8 which, in pertinence, reads:

*953Section 8(b). “Cancellation of republished prior registrations unless affidavit of use filed

“Any registration published under the provisions of subsection (c) of section 12 of this Act shall be canceled by the Commissioner at the end of 6 years after the date of such publication unless within 1 year next preceding the…