doctrine of foreign equivalents

noun

Definitions

  1. A rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated into…

    A rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated into English to determine whether they are registrable as trademarks, or are either descriptive or confusingly similar with existing marks.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doctrine of foreign equivalents. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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