2. Noun. (legal) In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being generic, and therefore unregistrable. ¹
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Definition of Genericness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genericness
Literary usage of Genericness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unseen I Slipped Awayby Maurice Nio by Maurice Nio (2004)
"The opposite to identity is not genericness. As long as identity is regarded as
a unit of being and the generic as a totality without being, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference, Held in City Road Chapel (1881)
"What a broad foundation was needed. Yet such is Methodism, broad as to its basis
as the plan of salvation. The good admire the genericness, ..."