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Trade Secret

Definition:
A trade secret includes proprietary knowledge and other confidential information that companies keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors.

Collective Mark

Definition:
A trademark or service mark used, or intended to be used, in commerce, by the members of a cooperative, an association, or other collective group or organization.

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Trademark Glossary Terms - helpful related terms

1996 Accord

Definition:
China agreed 17 June 1996 to fulfill promises to the United States to close pirate CD plants; criminally prosecute those who violate intellectual property laws.

Demand

Definition:
Form PCT/IPEA/401, filed with an International Preliminary Examining Authority, demanding that an international application shall be the subject of an international preliminary examination.

TRIPS

Definition:
The TRIPS agreement is the most comprehensive multilateral agreement. TRIPS sets a minimum standard for intellectual property protection that countries that join the WTO must conform to.

Dilution

Definition:
A type of infringement of a trademark in which the defendant's use, while not causing likelihood of confusion, tarnishes the image or blurs the distinctiveness of the owner's mark.

Madrid Protocol

Definition:
Is an international treaty that allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol by filing a single application.

Domain Names

Definition:
The names and words that companies designate for their registered Internet Web site addresses. Trademark disputes arise when more than one company tries to use the same domain name, or one company appropriates another company's brand or product name for i