Law Dictionary Definitions

secondary meaning.Intellectual property. A special sense that a trademark or tradename for a business, goods, or services has acquired even though the trademark or tradename was not originally protectable. • The term does not refer to a subordinate or rare meaning, but rather to a later meaning that has been added to the original one…

secondary market.See MARKET. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary liability.See LIABILITY. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary-line injury.Antitrust. Under the price-discrimination provisions of the Robinson–Patman Act, the act of hindering or seeking to hinder competition among a seller’s customers by selling substantially the same products at favorable prices to one customer, or a select group of customers, to the detriment of others. 15 USCA § 13(a). • A secondary-line injury, which…

secondary-line competition.See vertical competition under COMPETITION. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary lender.A wholesale mortgage buyer who purchases first mortgages from banks and savings-and-loan associations, enabling them to restock their money supply and loan more money. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary invention.Patents. An invention that uses or incorporates established elements or combinations to achieve a new and useful result. [Cases: Patents 174. C.J.S. Patents § 308.] [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary insurer.See excess insurer under INSURER. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary insured.See additional insured under INSURED. [Blacks Law 8th]

secondary factor.(usu. pl.) Patents. Objective evidence that courts consider in determining a patent claim’s nonobviousness. • Secondary factors include “commercial success, long-felt but unsolved need, failure of others, and unexpected results.” Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 17–18, 86 S.Ct. 684, 694 (1966). — Also termed secondary consideration. [Cases: Patents 36.1. C.J.S. Patents…