Oklahoma § 78-52 - Definitions

§ 78-52. Definitions

As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Article" means a product as distinguished from a trademark,

label, or distinctive dress in packaging;

2. "Certification mark" means a mark used in connection with

the goods or services of a person other than the certifier to

indicate geographic origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality,

accuracy or other characteristics of the goods or services or to

indicate that the work or labor on the goods or services was

performed by members of a union or other organization;

3. "Collective mark" means a mark used by members of a

cooperative, association, or other collective group or organization

to identify goods or services and distinguish them from those of

others, or to indicate membership in the collective group or

organization;

4. "Directory assistance" means the disclosure of telephone

number information in connection with an identified telephone

service subscriber by means of a live operator or automated service;

5. "Local telephone directory" means a telephone classified

advertising directory or the business section of a telephone

directory that is distributed by a telephone company or directory

publisher to subscribers located in the local exchanges contained in

the directory. The term includes a directory that includes listings

of more than one telephone company;

6. "Local telephone number" means a telephone number that has

the three-number prefix used by the provider of telephone service

for telephones physically located within the area covered by the

local telephone directory in which the number is listed. The term

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also includes 800, 888, other toll free exchange numbers, and 900

exchange numbers listed in a local telephone directory;

7. "Mark" means a word, name, symbol, device, or any

combination of the foregoing in any form or arrangement;

8. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,

estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more

of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any

other legal or commercial entity;

9. "Service mark" means a mark used by a person to identify

services and to distinguish them from the services of others;

10. "Trademark" means a mark used by a person to identify goods

and to distinguish them from the goods of others;

11. "Trade name" means a word, name, symbol, device, or any

combination of the foregoing in any form of arrangement used by a

person to identify his business, vocation, or occupation and to

distinguish it from the business, vocation, or occupation of others.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 234, § 2. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 162, § 1,

eff. July 1, 1998.