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Generic Name

Definition:
A word used by most people to name a class or category of product or service, such as ?personal computer? or ?cellular phone.? No one person may have trademark rights to a generic name.

Piracy

Definition:
The term generally used to describe the deliberate infringement of copyright on a commercial scale, i.e. unauthorized copying.

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Trademark Glossary Terms - helpful related terms

Office

Definition:
In the context of actions or activities involving the USPTO this refers to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) itself.

Patent

Definition:
A grant by the federal government to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling his or her invention.

TRIPS

Definition:
The minimum standard in TRIPS is set primarily with reference to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Convention) and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Berne Convention).

Functionality

Definition:
That aspect of design that makes a product work better for its intended purpose, as opposed to making the product look better or to identifying its commercial source.

TTAB

Definition:
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board -- an administrative tribunal at the USPTO. It has jurisdiction over appeals from decisions of the Trademark Office, as well as opposition proceedings and cancellation proceedings.

TESS

Definition:
Trademark Electronic Search System. USPTO’s online database for searching pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.