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Trademark




Trademark

A trademark is a name, symbol or logo which belongs to a company or person and is capable of being associated with its products or services. Its value lies in the goodwill associated with the mark in the minds of customers. Ownership and protection of trademarks is important. Those trademarks which qualify can be registered with the Trade Marks Registry. The use of trade marks can be licensed to third parties. The owner can prevent unauthorised use or infringement of trademarks which are registered - even if not registered a passing off action may be available.

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Trademark
A trademark is a name, symbol or logo which belongs to a company or person and is capable of being associated with its products or services. Its value lies in the goodwill associated with the mark in the minds of customers. Ownership and protection of trademarks is important. Those trademarks which qualify can be registered with the Trade Marks Registry. The use of trade marks can be licensed to third parties. The owner can prevent unauthorised use or infringement of trademarks which are registered - even if not registered a passing off action may be available.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Symbol
A sign; a token; a representation of one thing by another.

Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.

Goodwill
An intangible business asset which includes a cultivated reputation and consequential attraction and confidence of repeat customers and connections.

Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.

Ownership
Title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons.

Protection
1) English law. A privilege granted by the king to a party to an action, by which he is protected from a judgment which would otherwise be rendered against him. 2) Government. That benefit or safety which the government affords to the citizens. 3) merc. law. The name of a document generally given by notaries public, to sailors and other persons going abroad, in which is certified that the bearer therein named, is a citizen of the United States.

Trade
In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like.

Registry
A book authorized by law, in which writings are registered or recorded.

Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.

Owner
Property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or person-al, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his right.

Infringement
Infringement means an unlawful use, redistribution and/or exploitation of intellectual property copyright-protected, patent-protected or trademark-protected.

Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.



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Trade
In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like.

Trade marks
Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others.

Trade secrets
A contract will commonly contain a clause forbidding disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information to third parties during and after the contract. It will also often require company materials to be kept secure and returned when the contract ends. In the case of employment contracts, post termination restraints must be reasonable.

Trademark attorney
An attorney-at-law who specializes in trademark law and practice.

Trademarks registry
The Trademarks Registry, part of the Patent Office, administers the procedure for the registration of trademarks. It determines whether they qualify and maintains a register of trademarks which is open to public inspection.

Trader
One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealing is immaterial, when an intention to deal generally exists.

Tradewinds
A leading international shipping newspaper, published weekly by TradeWinds.

Traditio brevis manus
This term is used in the civil law to designate the delivery of a thing, by the mere consent of the parties; as, when Peter holds the property of Paul as bailee, and, afterwards, he buys it, it is not necessary that Paul should deliver the property to Peter, and he should re-deliver it to Paul, the mere consent of the parties transfers the title to Paul.

Tradition
Contracts, civil law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others.



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Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.

Tracing
A legal proceeding taken under the law of equity where the plaintiff attempts to reclaim specific property, through the court, whether the property is still in the first acquirer's hands or it has passed onto others, and even if the property has been converted (related common law terms: conversion, trover and detinue). This is a procedure frequently used by a trust beneficiary to recover misappropriated trust property.

Trade
In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like.

Trade marks
Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others.

Trade secrets
A contract will commonly contain a clause forbidding disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information to third parties during and after the contract. It will also often require company materials to be kept secure and returned when the contract ends. In the case of employment contracts, post termination restraints must be reasonable.

Trademark

Trademarks registry
The Trademarks Registry, part of the Patent Office, administers the procedure for the registration of trademarks. It determines whether they qualify and maintains a register of trademarks which is open to public inspection.

Trader
One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealing is immaterial, when an intention to deal generally exists.

Tradewinds
A leading international shipping newspaper, published weekly by TradeWinds.

Traditio brevis manus
This term is used in the civil law to designate the delivery of a thing, by the mere consent of the parties; as, when Peter holds the property of Paul as bailee, and, afterwards, he buys it, it is not necessary that Paul should deliver the property to Peter, and he should re-deliver it to Paul, the mere consent of the parties transfers the title to Paul.

Tradition
Contracts, civil law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others.

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