A trade name is any individual name or surname, firm name, device or word used by manufacturers, industrialists, merchants and others to identify their businesses, vocations or occupations. As the trade name refers to the business and its goodwill … the trademark refers to the goods. The ownership of a trademark or trade name is a property right which the owner is entitled to protect since there is damage to him from confusion or reputation or goodwill in the mind of the public as well as from confusion of goods. The modern trend is to give emphasis to the unfairness of the acts and to classify and treat the issue as fraud.
Source: Converse Rubber vs Universal Rubber.
