Even if a trademark is arbitrary and fanciful, the owner may still not be able to enforce his or her rights if it is used in a manner qualifying
as nominative fair use, for example, to identify and separate his or her goods or services from a competitor's.
It can be protected as a trademark, but it would almost certainly be allowed
as nominative fair use, since the alternative of indirect descriptive reference («the grocery store founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins») is not only cumbersome, but it doesn't even answer the question, where only the name can be used.
Not exact matches
4 Hume consistently translates the Sanskrit term brahman (neuter)
as Brabnia, the
nominative single form.
But notice that to arrive at this understanding of the principle, we must assume that in it the verb «to constitute» is functioning
as a copula — that it merely links the grammatical subject to a predicate
nominative, thus establishing the identity of «being» and «becoming».
5 The Western prejudice against relativity is discussed in Hartshorne's DR.. Here, Hartshorne shows that the relative includes within itself, and exceeds in value, the
nominative or absolute «
as the concrete includes and exceeds the abstract» (ix).
After all, I am about
as well - versed in the technical aspects of filmmaking
as most filmmakers are in the proper use of
nominative case nouns and predicate adjectives.
Learners consider antecedents, cases (
nominative, objective and possessive),
as well
as types of pronouns, and then craft sentences using...
Unfortunately, it's not
as useful
as I'd like,
as it requires words to be in their singular
nominative form for the highlighted definition to work — plurals, declined nouns and verbs of all sorts just can't be found.
And that use of a trademark to describe the trademarked goods, called «
nominative fair use,» is A-OK where there is no likelihood that the public will be confused
as to Toyota's sponsorship or endorsement of the Tabaris» websites.
These editors, whose names adorn the first ninety volumes of Supreme Court Reports, are known collectively
as the «
nominative» reporters (the Library of the U.S. Supreme Court maintains a complete list of cases by reporter volume and date of decision).