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Trademark law. This is the principal list on which distinctive trademarks and service marks that are approved for federal regulation are placed and which acts as notice to third parties that a mark is protected. After five successive years where a mark is not challenged, it becomes permanently established and not able to be legally challenged. This also makes it easier to … [Read more...] about PRINCIPAL REGISTER

Latin: Principal; a principal debtor; a principal in a crime. Principalis debet semper excuti ante-quam perveniatur ad ndeijussores. The principal should always be exhausted before coming upon the sureties. 2 Inst 19. Principla data sequuntur concomitantia. Given principles are followed by their concomitants. Prineipla probarit, non probantur. Principles prove; they are not … [Read more...] about PRINCIPALIS

In patent law, the principle of a machine is the particular means of producing a given result by a mechanical contrivance. Parker v. Stiles, 5 McLean, 44, 63, Fed. Cas. No. 10,749. The principle of a machine means. the modus operandi,'ot that which applied; modifies, or combines mechanical powers to produce a certain result; and, so far, a principle, if new in its application … [Read more...] about PRINCIPLE

Fundamental truths or doctrines of law; comprehensive rules or doctrines which furnish a basis or origin for others; Settled rules of action, procedure, or legal determination. By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is … [Read more...] about PRINCIPLES

The art of impressing letters ; the art of making books or papers by Impressing legible characters. The term may include typewriting. Public printing means Buch as is directly ordered by the legislature, or performed by the agents of the government authorized to procure it to be done. Ellis v. State, 4 Ind. 1. … [Read more...] about PRINTING