Section 13
SEC. 13. The time of the receipt of any such application shall be noted and recorded. But no alleged trade-mark or trade-name shall be registered which is merely the name, quality, or description of the merchandise upon which it is to he used or the geographical place of its production or origin, or which is identical with a registered or known trade-mark owned by another and appropriate to the same class of merchandise, or which so nearly resembles another person's lawful trade-mark or trade-name as to be likely to cause confusion or mistake in the mind of the public, or to deceive purchasers. In an application for registration the Chief of the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks shall decide the presumptive lawfulness of claim to the alleged trade-mark.