Descriptiveness

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  • n. The characteristic of being descriptive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The character or quality of being descriptive.
    • Word Usage
    "Though there are cases (wrongly) finding suggestiveness when the mark alone isn’t enough to identify the goods/services, the court went with the (correct) majority view that descriptiveness is assessed from the perspective of a person who knows the context — the goods/services at issue."
    Cross Reference
    prescriptiveness    normativeness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    descriptivity   
     
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