单词 | trademark |
释义 | trademarkn.adj. A. n. 1. A mark (typically a word, phrase, logo, or symbol, or a combination of these elements) which is legally registered or has been established by use as representing a person or company, and applied to products, packaging, etc., in order to distinguish the owner's products and services from those of others. Cf. TM n. at T n. Initialisms 1a, R n. 10.A trademark is the exclusive property of the owner only in the category or categories of products and services under which it is registered. This does not usually prevent use of the same or a similar mark in a different market, except in cases where trademark dilution (see Compounds 2) is held to have occurred. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods merchant mark1540 merchant's mark1557 shop mark1592 skin mark1703 brand1728 chop1828 trademark1839 tally1851 scribing1859 trade name1890 word mark1902 TM1961 UPC1974 countermark- 1839 J. W. Mylne & R. D. Craig Rep. Cases Chancery 1837–8 3 338 (margin) The Court will grant a perpetual injunction against the use, by one tradesman, of the trade marks of another. 1862 Act 25 & 26 Victoria c. 88 §1 The Expression ‘Trade Mark’ shall include any..Name, Signature, Word, Letter, Device [etc.]..lawfully used by any Person to denote any Chattel, or (in Scotland) any Article of Trade [etc.]..to be an Article or Thing of the Manufacture..of such Person, or to be an Article or Thing of any peculiar or particular Description made or sold by such Person. 1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 26 The owl is the trade-mark of the firm. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 46/3 (advt.) Insist on buying upholstered furniture, bearing the trade-mark shown below. 1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) iii. ii. 320 Manufacturers, protecting their trademarks, were unwilling to risk reducing quality. 2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Mar. a18 (advt.) UPS, the UPS brandmark and the color brown are trademarks of United Parcel Service of America, Inc. 2. figurative. A distinctive object, feature, characteristic, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun] tokenc1000 distinctionc1374 differencea1398 signeta1425 knowledge?c1475 smell?a1505 markc1522 badge1529 note1583 impress1590 monument1590 type1595 stamp1600 pressure1604 mintage1612 criterion1613 impressa1628 differencer1633 lineament1638 mole1644 discrimination1646 tessera1647 diagnostic1651 monumental1657 discretive1660 signate1662 footmark1666 trait1752 memorandum1766 fingerprint1792 insignia1796 identifier1807 designative1824 cachet1840 differentiator1854 tanga1867 trademark1869 signature1873 totem1875 differential1883 earmarkings1888 paw print1894 discriminator1943 ident1952 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxiii. 238 We see other monks looking tranquilly up to heaven, but having no trade-mark. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxx. 311 The trade mark upon your forehead is especially hard to overlook. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 798 (caption) Trademark of Madagascar is the lemur. 1968 O. Acosta Let. 22 July in H. S. Thompson Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 112 You've been wearing that same goddamn shirt now for over a year that I know of... I mean, is this your trade mark now? 2006 Time Out N.Y. 6 Apr. 157/3 Toshi Reagon's trademark has always been her ability to merge diverse textures, mixing gospel and blues with Hendrixesque wails. B. adj. (attributive). Distinctive, characteristic. Cf. signature adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > characteristic or distinguishing distinctive1583 physiognomical1588 specifical1621 specific1649 diagnostic1650 distinguishable1665 specific1667 physiognomonical1668 well-characterized1672 specifying1675 distinguishing1687 determinative1697 physiognomonic1755 marking1795 featurelya1834 typical1850 characterizing1870 trademark1943 1943 Billboard 6 Nov. 20/1 Should be brief in introducing the acts, and hold the trade-mark style for his own inning. 1983 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 17/2 Fans need not worry: her trademark French rayon jersey made up at least half the collection. 1991 Stained Glass Spring 22 Smiley accomplished Lalique's trademark frosted finish through a succession of acid baths, abrasive etching and painstaking hand sanding. 2011 C. A. Lisi Hist. World Cup, 1930–2010 v. 132 A trademark header from Müller in the 53rd minute. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective in sense A. 1, as trademark holder, trademark name, trademark registration, etc. ΚΠ 1861 Statutes Province Canada 43 He shall further state in such certificate the day, month and year of the entry thereof in the said Trade Marks Register. 1864 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 19 Nov. 579/2 A system of trade mark registration. 1901 Daily Chron. 2 Dec. 7/1 A belated perambulator..with the trade-mark name of ‘The Prince of Wales’. 1962 Billboard 19 May 5/2 Treating the whole matter as label infringement under special trademark legislation. 1976 Jrnl. Marketing 40 No. 4. 121 All trademark holders may be well-advised to muster legal and financial resources to defend themselves. 1991 Martha Stewart Living Sept. 36/2 The day after she decided to set up shop, Wendy consulted a trademark attorney who helped her with the initial steps. 2011 S. Barnes Amer. Prop. ii. 35 These expansions of the rights of a trademark holder had their critics. C2. trademark dilution n. reduction of a trademark's distinctiveness due to another party's use of a similar mark, typically in an unrelated market. ΚΠ 1956 Calif. Law Rev. 44 439 (heading) The problem of trademark dilution and the antidilution statutes. 1975 Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Dec. 10/4 Trademark infringement, trademark dilution and unfair competition. 2010 A. Packard Digital Media Law viii. 164 To prove trademark dilution, the trademark owner must submit evidence demonstrating an actual lessening of the trademark's capacity to identify and distinguish goods or services. trademark infringement n. violation of the exclusive rights associated with a trademark caused by another party's use of the same or a similar mark, typically in an identical or related market. ΚΠ 1861 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 14 Sept. 8/2 (heading) Trade mark infringement. 1967 Flying July 13/2 One may find oneself hauled into court and charged with aiding and abetting trademark infringement. 2010 M. Wall Enter Night xiii. 390 The band was suing..Guerlain for trademark infringement over their new perfume named Metallica. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). trademarkv. Often in passive. 1. transitive. To affix a trademark to (something); to provide with a trademark. Also: to register (a name, symbol, etc.) as a trademark. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > commercial goods scribe1806 tally1837 trademark1859 badge1980 1859 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 24 Aug. 4/4 The prisoners were also charged with having in their possession..three packages of cord, trade marked, for which they could not satisfactorily account. 1881 Canada Lancet 1 Nov. 91/1 Whether a party has the right to trademark the proper name of an article. 1917 Advertising & Selling Jan. 11/1 I..patented my collar-hood and trademarked it under the name ‘Coronation Cape’. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xiv. 170 Heroin is sold in vacuum-sealed tins made up and trademarked like well-known brands of coffee. 2012 New Yorker 30 Jan. 57/1 Loath to be outdone as a marketer, Juan José says that he recently trademarked ‘Mexiterranea’. 2. figurative. a. transitive. To characterize, define; to be the identifying feature of. ΚΠ 1918 Anniston (Alabama) Star 11 Apr. 2/3 The cantonment hospital, a bewildering maze of shingled wards, operating rooms trademarked with its atmospherical tincture of anaesthetics and antidotes. 1923 Bulletin (National Parks Assoc.) 8 Mar. The scenic grandeur of this nation as trademarked by the term ‘National Parks’ is a very practical part of the equipment of the salesman abroad. 1945 Washington Post 25 June 7/5 Sturges..has signed the comedian trademarked by the lensless specs to appear in two pictures. 1973 Oakland (Calif.) Post (Electronic ed.) 21 Oct. 3 Later in the 20s she became a Folies Bergere star in performances trademarked by her glamorous costumes. 2005 S. D. Youngkin Lost One i. 23 Lorre seasoned his comedy with a dash of the absurd, foreshadowing the delicate balance of opposites that would trademark his screen career. b. transitive. To make one's own speciality; to establish oneself as the main user of. ΚΠ 1993 D. Sheff Game Over xii. 290 It was originally ‘..the Just Say No Gang’, but Nancy Reagan had trademarked that phrase. 2000 Independent 20 Sept. 27/2 She performed an exercise she has trademarked as reigning Olympic champion on the uneven bars. 2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Mar. 12/1 You..trademarked a genre of cooking called ‘Semi-Homemade’, which involves 30 percent fresh and 70 percent prepared ingredients, like Velveeta. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1839v.1859 |
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