When the Trademark Is a Descriptive Term

question 37

Multiple Choice

When the trademark is a descriptive term:

• A)courts routinely treat the term as distinctive to legal merit.
• B)protection exists only if a claimant proves that the term conveys to consumers a secondary meaning of association with the claimant.
• C)courts are unwilling to afford the term trademark protection.
• D)it qualifies for trademark protection automatically and functions as the common descriptive name of a product class.

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