Trademark Status

• CURIE: gmeow:TrademarkStatus
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/TrademarkStatus
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/rights
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

The registration status of a trademark — a VALUE: unregistered (™), registered (®), pending, expired, or cancelled. Open vocabulary.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:TrademarkStatus as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the open value vocabulary for the trademark-status axis — the registration states (unregistered ™, registered ®, pending, expired, cancelled) a trademark declares via gmeow:trademarkStatus.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting per-status subclasses (statuses are individuals, Principle 9) and avoid reusing it for copyright or licence standing, which have their own vocabularies.

How to use

• Reference a seeded value (gmeow:trademarkStatusRegistered, gmeow:trademarkStatusExpired, …) from gmeow:trademarkStatus; mint a fresh individual only if a registry status outside the five seeds is needed.

Examples

• ex:statusRegistered a gmeow:TrademarkStatus; rdfs:label "registered (®)"@en.