| United States. Federal Trade Commission - Trade regulation - 1951 - 886 pages
...organizations engaged in trade or commerce and capable of suing and being sued in a court of law. Trade-mark. The term "trade-mark" includes any word, name, symbol,...from those manufactured or sold by others. Service mark. The term "service mark"' means a mark used in the sale or advertising of services to identify... | |
| New York (State) - Session laws - 1954 - 1226 pages
...368-d. Common law rights. § 360. Definitions. As used in this article : (a) The term "trade-mark" means any word, name, symbol or device or any combination thereof, adopted and used by a person to identify goods made or sold by him and to distinguish them from poods made or sold by others.... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Patent laws and legislation - 1956 - 56 pages
...What is a trademark? A. A trademark is a word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination of these, adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to...distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. In short, it is a brand name used on goods moving in the channels of trade. Q. What is the function... | |
| Brian Kahin, James Keller - Computers - 1997 - 514 pages
...Basic Trademark Concepts What Is a Trademark? A trademark is "any word, name, symbol or device ... adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to...them from those manufactured or sold by others."' A mark used in the sale or advertising of services is a service mark.- In our complex free-market economic... | |
| Trademarks - 1997 - 392 pages
..."commercial name" mean any name used by a person to identify his or her business or vocation. Trademark. The term "trademark" includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof— ( 1 ) used by a person, or (2) which a person has a bona fide intention to use in commerce and applies... | |
| Steven H. Bazerman, Jason M. Drangel - Law - 1999 - 2153 pages
...is registrable under this provision.4 Thus, not only are words or 1. As defined in the Lanham Act, "the term 'trademark' includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof (1) used by a person, or (2) which a person has a bona fide intention to use in commerce and applies... | |
| Sidney J. Levy - Business & Economics - 1999 - 612 pages
...other kind of designation. 2. It must be adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant. 3. It must identify his goods and distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. (Gilson, 1974, pp. 1-8) That is, trademarks have identity, persistence, and distinctiveness. They belong... | |
| Philip H. Francis - New products - 2000 - 298 pages
...slogans, and the like. The technical definition, which appears in the Trademark Act of 1946 (Section 45), "includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any...distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others." The basic function of a trademark is to identify the origin of the product to which it is affixed.... | |
| Leo V. Ryan, Wojciech W. Gasparski, Georges Enderle - Philosophy - 320 pages
...according to the resolutions of the Lanham Act and the Polish law on this subject are defined as: any word, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof adopted...distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others (Arens 1994:51). While examining the mentioned definition, the first impression that comes forward... | |
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