recordantn.
/rᵻˈkɔːd(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈkɔrd(ə)nt/, /riˈkɔrd(ə)nt/ U.S. Law.
A person who records a trademark with the customs authorities in order to help prevent the importation of goods that infringe the mark.
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1969 Trademark Reporter 59 310 Some Customs trademark recordants who had recorded before 1953 undoubtedly continued to be permitted to exclude merchandise from their foreign supplier.
1994 T. H. Hiebert Parallel Importation U.S. Trademark Law iv. 77 Recordants were now also required to report information about any related companies to Customs.
1997 Florida Bar Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 May 94 If goods were released by Customs and the recordant discovers this, the port director..is to make demand on the importer for redelivery of the goods.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† recordantadj.
Obsolete.
Containing or providing a record.
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society > communication > record > [adjective] > containing a record
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a1731 J. Hughes Miscellanies (1737) 146 Thus to the Fair, whil I attempt to raise A Monument recordant of her Praise.
1796 M. C. de Crespigny Pavilion IV. xvii. 208 He wished the ornaments of this recordant Pavilion to consist of costly pillars of marble.
1813 in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 656 Monument or memorial recordant of the virtues..of man.
1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest ii. iv. 42 They are merely shapes of amphora..usefully recordant of different ages of the wine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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