Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A name, symbol, or other device used to identify and promote a product or service, especially an officially registered name or symbol that is thereby protected against use by others.
- noun A distinctive characteristic by which a person or thing comes to be known.
- transitive verb To label (a product) with proprietary identification.
- transitive verb To register (something) as a trademark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal
distinctive ,characteristic ,signature - noun A
word ,symbol , orphrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products. - noun Any proprietary business, product or service name.
- verb To
register something as a trademark. - verb To so
label a product.
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Examples
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A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination of words, phrases, symbols or designs, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others.
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A further trademark is the blokeish matiness between Jack and his many friends and associates, which he regularly uses to help his investigation along.
Sunday Salon: Black Tide Maxine 2007
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A further trademark is the blokeish matiness between Jack and his many friends and associates, which he regularly uses to help his investigation along.
November 2007 Maxine 2007
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A further trademark is the blokeish matiness between Jack and his many friends and associates, which he regularly uses to help his investigation along.
Sunday Salon: Black Tide Maxine 2007
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Designing a trademark is a multi-step process for us.
branding Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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After some small businesses complained about what they call "trademark bullying," Congress mandated a study of the issue.
NYT > Home Page By PETER LATTMAN 2011
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There is a “fair use” defense in trademark law that protects just these kinds of uses, where descriptive terms are being used in their descriptive sense; the right to sue for infringement of a registered mark is subject to the defense that.
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This claim about there being current litigation on the T&T trademark is a complete fabrication, as the owner of the T&T trademark, Flying Buffalo, Inc. and Rick Loomis, has said himself that he has not started any litigation regarding T&T.
Outlaw Press/Jim Shipman Sinks To Demented, Pathetic New Lows In Art Theft Scandal « Geek Related 2010
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Willie's D bottled up Tech's vaunted ground game, whose trademark is the long run.
UGA coaches Bobo, Martinez shine in win over Georgia Tech - sports 2009
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Copyright confers the exclusive right to control copying; trademark is the right to sue people who might mislead your customers, tricking them into thinking that a product that looks like yours came from you.
Boing Boing 2009
whichbe commented on the word trademark
'Escalator' is one of many words that were originally trademarks but have become ordinary words found in dictionaries. Some other words which were originally trademarks (or still are) are: aspirin, cellophane, cornflakes, cube steak, ditto, gunk, heroin, kerosene, lanolin, mimeograph, moxie, pablum, phillips screw, tabloid, thermos, trampoline, windbreaker, yo-yo, zipper.
May 7, 2008
kewpid commented on the word trademark
A badge of origin.
June 6, 2008