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Generic

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-002302

Describing a product or service that is not protected by a brand name or trademark, often referring to a general class of items. In intellectual property law, a term becomes generic when it loses its distinctiveness as a brand and becomes the common name for a product category. Generic terms cannot be trademarked.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-002302
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-002302",
  "term": "Generic",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "Describing a product or service that is not protected by a brand name or trademark, often referring to a general class of items. In intellectual property law, a term becomes generic when it loses its distinctiveness as a brand and becomes the common name for a product category. Generic terms cannot be trademarked.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/generic/"
}

Record 2,212 of 5,445 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.