Doctrine of foreign equivalents

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA 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.

Synonyms

doctrine of equivalents equivalence formal equivalence dynamic equivalence equivalency æquivalency functional equivalence adequation equivalation æquivalent cyberequivalent equivalent

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