Mark System
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MARK SYSTEM, the name given to a social organization which rests on the common tenure and common cultivation of the land by small groups of freemen.
Mark
(n) Mark is the identification made on any document, article, properties etc to prove the concurrence and awareness expected of the of the person who had made the marks.
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Collective mark - Trademark or service mark used by members of a cooperative, an association, or other collective group or organization.
Collective Mark A name, symbol, or other device used by members of an organization to: 1) identify goods or services it provides; or 2) indicate membership in the organization.
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n. an "X" made by a person who is illiterate or too weak to sign his/her full name. If the mark is intended as a signature to a will it should be formally witnessed (as signatures are) to make the will valid.
MARK. This term has several acceptations. 1. It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2 Cart. R. 324; M. & M. 516; 12 Pet. 150; 7 Bing. 457; 2 Ves. 455; 1 V.
word mark A type of trademark comprised of text.
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Service Mark: A word, name, symbol or device, or any combinationthereof, used to identify and distinguish the services performed by a particularentity form those performed by its competitors.
Service Mark
Any word, name, symbol, character, design, drawing or device used to identify services rendered and to distinguish them from services rendered or offered by others.
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Definition - Noun
1 : a character usu. in the form of a cross or X that is made as a substitute for a signature by a person who cannot or is unwilling to write ...
Mark the vice of the procedure. Sir W. Hamilton.
2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, ...
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A mark is considered merely descriptive if it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services.
^ Mark A. Lemley, "Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding", see Table 1, pp. 4-5.
^ Stuart P.
LAND MARK
A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land mark an action lies. 1 Tho.... more ...
Beers, Mark and Berkow, Robert, editors, The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Ed. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey: Merck Research Laboratories, 1999), page 1393.
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generic mark
In trademark law, a word or symbol commonly used to describe an entire type of product or service rather than to distinguish one product or service from another.
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Academic. Mark of distinction conferred on students in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences. They are of pontifical origin.
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Plimsoll mark: a series of horizontal lines, corresponding to the seasons of the year in fresh or saltwater, painted on the outside of a ship marking the level which must remain above the surface of the water for the vessel's stability.
Registered mark Trademark with the words "Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office" or the letter "R" enclosed within a circle.
Seal - To mark a document with a seal; to authenticate or make binding by affixing a seal. Court seal, corporate seal.
Heavy rain, river or ocean action would have this effect by either washing up sand or soil or by a permanent retreat of the high water mark. The washing up of soil is often called avulsion although the latter term is but a variety of accretion.
For example, car thief "George" may have a break and enter technique that leaves a long scratch mark on the door.
When a trade or service mark is not registrable it may still be entitled to certain protection, i.e. a passing-off action.
French seel, a signet: Latin sigillum, a mark, seal. 1. An instrument for impressing wax made to adhere to a writing, in attestation of the genuineness of the writing or of the deliberation with which it is executed.
To strike out; to obliterate, erase or mark for deletion.
Ex Rel:
An abbreviation of "ex relatione", Latin for "on the relation of.
The Lanham Act permits a mark not yet used in commerce to be reserved for later registration by filing an intent-to-use application with the U.S.
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