Can Others Still Use a Descriptive Mark to Indicate Its Primary Significance (Fair Use)?


Category: Intellectual Property Law

Under the doctrine of fair use, even where a word or phrase has acquired secondary meaning, it can retain its original primary meaning in English, if any. Such marks can still be used freely when they are used in their original sense and not in a misleading fashion. Such use is called “fair use.”

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