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Trade description, means 'any description, state-ment, or other indication, direct or indirect, (a) as to the number, quantity, measure, gauge, or weight of any goods, or (b) as to the place or country in which any goods were made or produced, or (c) as to the mode of manufacturing or producing any goods, or (d) as to the material of which any goods are composed, or (e) as to any goods being the subject of an existing patent, privilege, or copyright, and the use of any figure, word, or mark which, accord-ing to the custom of the trade, is commonly taken to be an indication of any of the above matters.' A 'false trade description' means a trade description which is false in a material respect as regards the goods to which it is applied, and includes every alteration of a trade description, whether by way of addition, effacement, or otherwise, where that alteration makes the description false in a material respect, and the fact that a trade description is a trade mark, or part of a trade...
False trade description
False trade description means, for the purposes of the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 and 1926, a Trade Description (q.v.) which is false in a material respect as regards the goods to which it is applied, and includes every alteration of a trade description, whether by way of addition, effacement, or other-wise, where that alteration makes the description false in a material respect, and the fact that a trade description is a trade mark or part of a trade mark shall not prevent such trade description being a false trade description. See TRADE DESCRIPTION....
Descriptive
Tending to describe having the quality of representing containing description as a descriptive figure a descriptive phrase a descriptive narration a story descriptive of the age...
Description
Description, year of the make and the particulars of the model are part of the description, Subhash Chandra v. State of U.P., (1980) 2 SCC 324: AIR 1980 SC 800: (1980) 2 SCR 1024. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 48(3)]Is a representation that gives to another a view of a thing intended to be represented....
Distinct matters and descriptions
Distinct matters and descriptions, in its popular sense, the expression 'distinct matters' would connote something different from distinct 'categories'. Two transactions might be of the same description, but all the same, they might be distinct, Member Board of Revenues v. Arthur Paul Benthall, AIR 1956 SC 35. [Stamp Act, (2 of 1899), ss. 4, 5, 6]...
description
description : a representation in words of the nature and characteristics of a thing: as a : a specification of the boundaries of a piece of land (as for a deed) b : an explanation of an invention in a patent application or printed publication ...
descriptive mark
descriptive mark : a trademark or service mark that conveys the idea of the qualities, characteristics, or effects of a product or service and that is protectable when it creates an association in the mind of the public between the mark and the producer or product or service ...
mere descriptiveness
mere descriptiveness Statutory basis for refusing registration of trademarks and service marks because the proposed mark merely describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services. With regard to trademark significance, matter may be categorized along a continuum, ranging from marks that are highly distinctive to matter that is a generic name for the goods or services. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Description of the risk
Description of the risk, the second matter to which the ordinary form of proposal is directed is the nature of the risk to be covered and the circumstances affecting it, Provincial Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Morgan, (1933) AC 240 HL....
Vessel
Vessel, includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel or any other vessel of any description. [Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002, s. 2(w)]Vessel, includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel, or other description of vessel used in navigation whether propelled by oars or otherwise and anything made for the conveyance, mainly by water, of human beings or of goods and a caisson. [Explosives Act, 1884 (IV of 1884), s. 4 (j)]According to the General Clauses Act a 'ship' shall include a vessel of every description used in navigation and not exclusively propelled by oars. A vessel on the other hand is a ship or boat or any other description of vessel used for navigation. Therefore, a vessel which is exclusively propelled by oars would not fall within the definition of a ship but would be covered by the wider definition of a vessel. From these two definitions it cannot be inferred that a mechanically propelled vessel is not a boat for the simple reason that the definition of v...
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