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A medication sold under its generic name usually legal only after the patent has expired or if no patent was issued for the substance Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications...
generic name
The name for a medication as used in the pharmacopoeia it cannot be a trademark The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug but must be approved by a national or international naming authority...
generic
generic 1 : common or descriptive and not entitled to trademark protection : nonproprietary [the name of a drug] 2 : having a nonproprietary name [ drugs] ...
generic term
generic term Terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the goods or services. These terms are incapable of functioning as trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable. Examples include: "Classes Online" for classes provided via the Internet, "Pizza.com" for pizza ordering and delivery services, and "Live Plants" for plant nurseries. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Generically
With regard to a genus or an extensive class as an animal generically distinct from another or two animals or plants generically allied...
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 ...
Cephaloptera
One of the generic names of the gigantic ray Manta birostris of the family Mobulidae known as devilfish sea devil manta and manta ray It is common on the coasts of South Carolina Florida and farther south and is sometimes found as far north as New York Bay Some of them grow to enormous size becoming twenty feet of more across the body and weighing more than a ton...
Escalator
A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously and one stepping upon it is carried up or down originally a trade term which has become the generic name for such devices Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors...
VerbarLeptus
The six legged young or larva of certain mites sometimes used as a generic name See Harvest mite under Harvest...
VerbarSinapis
A disused generic name for mustard now called Brassica...
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