imitation
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 340 U.S. 593 - 62 Cases More or Less Each Containing Six Jars of Jam v. United States · 1951Most cited · 492 citing opinions
In that section Congress did not give an esoteric meaning to 'imitation.' It left it to the understanding of ordinary English speech. And it directed that a product should be deemed 'misbranded' if it imitated another food 'unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word 'imitation' and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The making of one thing in the similitude or likeness of another; as, counterfeit coin is said to be made "in imitation" of the genuine. An imitation of a trade-mark is tbat which so far resembles the genuine trade-mark as to be likely to induce the belief that it is genuine, whether by the use of words or letters similar in appearance or in sound or by'any sign, device or other means. Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, § 368; Wagner v. Daly, 67 Hun, 477, 22 N. Y, Supp. 498; State v. Harris, 27 N. C. 294.