doctrine of foreign equivalents

Noun

Meaning

doctrine of foreign equivalents

(law) 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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Close letter words and terms

doctrine of analogy doctrine of definite proportions doctrine of equivalents doctrine of marxism doctrine of necessity doctrine of philosophical necessity