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DISTINCTIVE MARK [4 records]

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trademarks (Law)
DEF

... a trademark which makes the general public or the consumer of goods believe that the goods bearing that trademark are different from those of other persons.

CONT

Generally, a distinctive mark is owned by the business that is the first to use it when marketing its product or service commercially.

OBS

The general term "mark" is often used in texts as an elliptical variant of "trademark."

OBS

... Trademarks that describe the ingredients, qualities, features, purpose or characteristics of a product or service. These marks are not inherently distinctive, and thus do not receive trademark protection unless they acquire distinctiveness through secondary meaning.

Key term(s)
  • distinctive trade-mark

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marques de commerce (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protection of Life
  • Police
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Passport Canada

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Police
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie en usage à Passeport Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Animal Science

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Zootechnie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estadística
  • Zootecnia
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Record 4 1985-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
CONT

The special conditions imposed on sliding poise machines, so that they may be submitted directly for verification, are fulfilled when ... the head and the sliding poise of machines with detachable sliding poises bear the same distinctive mark.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
CONT

Les conditions particulières imposées aux instruments simples à poids curseurs, pour qu'ils puissent être présentés directement à la vérification, sont satisfaites lorsque (...) la tête et le curseur des instruments à curseur amovible portent un même signe d'identification.

Spanish

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