Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, § 1209.01©¶
United States Patent and Trademark Office. (2025). Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, § 1209.01(c): Generic Terms.
Cited by¶
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Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Brand Symbol System
- The sharper long-run risk is loss of distinctiveness: a mark so widely and loosely applied that it stops pointing at anyone in particular — the trademark world's genericide, where a defended name dissolves into a common noun.
This sourceExplains that a designation understood as the common name of a class cannot indicate a unique source and therefore cannot function as a trademark.
- The sharper long-run risk is loss of distinctiveness: a mark so widely and loosely applied that it stops pointing at anyone in particular — the trademark world's genericide, where a defended name dissolves into a common noun.
Verification¶
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Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
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