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The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks due to abandonment, non-renewal or improper issuance (the generic term predated the registration). Some marks retain trademark protection in certain countries despite being generic in others.
This may be the reason for which there is no general definition of degeneracy, despite the fact that the concept is widely used and defined (if needed) in each specific situation. A degenerate case thus has special features which makes it non-generic, or a special case. However, not all non-generic or special cases are degenerate.
In some countries, such as Brazil (photo) and France, more than 20% of all drug sales in units are generic. A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents. Generic drugs are allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire.
Generic names of compositions are capitalized in article titles on a single composition, Always when the generic name is part of an English-language non-generic article title: An Alpine Symphony; For untranslated and untransliterated article titles from other languages, use the convention of the language of origin:
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of every fully qualified domain name .
Generic definitions can be used by applying them to a type or kind. This is called generic application. The result is a type or value, depending on which sort of generic definition is applied. Generic abstraction enables generic definitions be defined by abstracting a type parameter (of a given kind).
For example, a generic point of an affine space over a field k is a point whose coordinates are algebraically independent over k. In scheme theory, where the points are the sub varieties, a generic point of a variety is a point whose closure for the Zariski topology is the whole variety. A generic property is a property of the generic point.
Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark, other than the trading name of the business providing the product; Generic trademark, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage; Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name