to be considered trademark, symbols and emblems must be missing some situations (negative substantive conditions) and have some conditions (positive substantive conditions). non-traditional marks, especially those which are visible such as colors and three-dimensional marks face challenges in order to comply with these conditions.some declare that such mark are not registrable they strictly bel...

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

AIX, AS/400, DB/2, OS/2, System/360, MVS, VM/CMS, and IBM PC are trademarks of IBM. Alpha, DEC, VAX, HP−UX, PDP, TOPS−10, TOPS−20, VMS, and VT−100 are trademarks of Compaq. Amiga and AmigaOS are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. Apple, Macintosh, MacOS, Newton, OpenDoc, and OpenStep are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. ClearCase is a trademark of Rational Software, Inc. Ethernet is a trademark of 3C...