English Explanatory Dictionary

doctrine of foreign equivalents

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

doctrine of foreign equivalents

Related words

doctrine of equivalents an unrelated doctrine of patent law
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