§ 1120.
Any person who shall procure registration in the Patent and Trademark Office of a mark by a false or fraudulent declaration or representation, oral or in writing, or by any false means, shall be liable in a civil action by any person injured thereby for any damages sustained in consequence thereof.
([July 5, 1946, ch. 540], title VI, § 38, [60 Stat. 440]; [Pub. L. 93–596, § 1], Jan. 2, 1975, [88 Stat. 1949].)