Category:Trade name

Trade name.

1. (a) the name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, Tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various Solutions of tin salts. (b) an invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or Merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him.

2. The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not Protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law Protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in The case of trade-marks.