Doctrine of foreign equivalents/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Doctrine of foreign equivalents.

Rule applied in United States trademark law that requires courts and the TTAB to translate foreign words in determining whether they are registrable as trademarks, or confusingly similar with existing marks.