Historically, says Alex Carpenter of Interbrand, brands were used in financial services in their most basic form: to denote the origin of a product.

ECONOMIST: Banks are trying to develop better brands. About time too

It did not enter the food chain and investigations into the origin of the meat product are continuing.

BBC: Burgers

Cabranes restated the primary goal of trademark law, which is enforced under the Lanham Act: To protect consumers against being confused about the origin and quality of a product.

FORBES: Louboutin Wins Protection For Red, But Don't Try To Grab Blue Just Yet

The localization service may provide the user with search results in the form of web pages that list which retailers sell the desired product in the vicinity of the search origin.

FORBES: Local.com Spikes On Local Product Search Patent

Most buyers outside of Japan expect new products to be simple and intuitive, and they are less concerned about a product's point of origin.

WSJ: Japan's iPad Frenzy Signals a Sea Change

The origin of this carnival is in the cultural miscellanies product of the migrations that were coming in different epochs to this ground of bateyes and ingenuities.

UNESCO: Culture

The 27-nation bloc must agree on binding origin disclosures for food product ingredients, starting with a better labeling of meat products, German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said.

NPR: Horse Meat Found In Ikea's Swedish Meatballs

It can be embedded into product labels, or sprayed on to cotton to mark its country of origin.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

In summary, Dr Saetre and his colleagues have vindicated Dobzhansky and thus confirmed a mechanism for the origin of species that is directly caused by natural selection, rather than being an accidental by-product of it.

ECONOMIST: Evolution

While many of his broader product rivals built up leads in the huge urban markets, Jyothy has more of a rural origin, and that may help now with the expanded lines.

FORBES: India's Jyothy Laboratories Keeps It Clean