A trademark right protects the symbolic value of a word, name, symbol, or device that the trademark owner uses to identify or distinguish its goods from those of others.
A "service mark" is "any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof..
It says that trademarks "includ[e] any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof". § 1127.
Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Breyer construed the language defining the reach of the Lanham Act -- "word, name, symbol, or device" -- as encompassing color.
This background strongly suggests that the language "any word, name, symbol, or device," 15 U.S.C. § 1127, had come to include color.
Finally, when Congress re-enacted the terms "word, name, symbol, or device" in 1988, it did so against a legal background in which those terms had come to include color, and its statutory revision embraced that understanding.
This was shown in their writing by employing such terms as 10q26 (a locus region on a chromosome) and gene name symbols (e.g., LEPR or ENGRAILED).
For FlyBase noncoding data set, we downloaded selected fields from the primary table dm3.flyBaseNoncoding and symbolic gene names (symbol) from linked table dm3.flyBase2004Xref using UCSC Table Browser.
Note that the Microsoft® Windows font named "Symbol" and the Adobe Symbol font are equivalent.
We have also asked other sports teams using Native American names, symbols, and mascots to reflect carefully on their meaning, and consult rigorously with contemporary tribes.
A list of proteins with names, symbols and Entrez Gene identifiers (Microsoft EXCEL).
