{"id":5512,"date":"2022-12-27T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:46:25","slug":"what-is-a-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Trademark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is a trademark?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A trademark<\/strong> is a distinctive sign or indicator used by a business organisation to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities.<\/li>\n<li>It serves as a badge of origin exclusively identifying a particular business as a source of goods or services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trademark infringement<\/strong> is the unauthorised usage of a sign that is identical or deceptively similar to a registered trademark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is a strong trademark?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A mark is said to be strong when it is well-known and has acquired a high degree of goodwill.<\/li>\n<li>The degree of the protection of any trademark changes with the<strong> strength of the mark; the stronger the mark, the higher the requirement to protect it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who invented trademark?<\/h3>\n<p>The first trademark legislation was passed by the Parliament of England under the reign of King Henry III in 1266, which required all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trademark is a distinctive sign used by a business to distinguish its products from those of other entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}