U.S. to Register Peace Symbol

The United States Patent Office has tentatively decided to register the peace symbol as a commercial trademark for either a shoe company or for the clothing firm which has already trademarked the word "Luv."

"If this were the accepted symbol of the Quakers or any organized religious sect which is absolutely pacifistic, we would not register it," C. M. Wendt, director of the Patent Office's trademark examining office, said.

A Far Cry

"But it's a far cry from that to use by the hippie movement-those who flaunt all the conventions of organized society," he added.

Wendt said that the patenting of the peace symbol would not prohibit peace groups or anyone else from putting the emblem on clothing, providing it was done as "an embellishment on the goods and not a trademark."