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impoverish(dictionary)
impoverish(dictionary)
prior(2)(dictionary)
prior(1)(dictionary)
Prior Use(law)
prior(medicine)
Prior Rights(law)
Prior Registration(law)
prior 2, noun(dictionary)

Prior Rights (law) and impoverish (medicine)


Prior Rights (law)




Trademark rights owned by one party for a given mark prior, and which were established prior to the time a second party gains trademark rights in that same or a similar mark. In the U.S. the party who is the first to use a mark in commerce has the prior right to the mark, and as such can exclude all subsequent uses of the mark in the same geographic territory. However, in most Other countries in the world, trademark rights are prioritized based on the first party to register a mark.





impoverish (medicine)


impoverish


1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish Families.

2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

Origin: OF. Empovrir; pref. Em- (L. In) + povre poor, F. Pauvre; cf. OF. Apovrir, F. Appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. Ad. Cf. Empoverish, and see Poor, and -ish.

Source: Websters Dictionary