trademark
any name, symbol, figure, letter, word, or mark adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant in order to designate specific goods and to distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. A trademark is proprietary and is usually registered with the Patent and Trademark Office to assure its exclusive use by its owner or licensee.
a distinctive mark or feature particularly characteristic of or identified with a person or thing (often used attributively): her trademark wit and sarcasm.
to stamp or otherwise place a trademark designation upon.
to register the trademark of.
Origin of trademark
1- See also proprietary name.
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How to use trademark in a sentence
He boasts of authoring “numerous” GPS patents and filing 47 trademarks with the United States Patent and trademark Office.
They also have to be two words, and neither of them can be "exotic" or "trite," or commercial trademarks, or the word "operation."
Why Is the Libya War Called Operation Odyssey Dawn? | Josh Dzieza | March 22, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBesides these several trademarks there are in addition various ingenious tricks that belonged to Willard and to nobody else.
Christopher and the Clockmakers | Sara Ware Bassett"It has taken years and years to make some of those catchy trademarks universal," objected Ruth, seriously.
Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures | Alice EmersonIn the past, therapeutic agents and apparatus have been controlled by patents and trademarks for profit.
The patent office is besieged by applicants demanding the Red Cross for trademarks.
The Red Cross in Peace and War | Clara BartonTrademarks can not be copyrighted nor registered in the Copyright Office.
Copyright: Its History and Its Law | Richard Rogers Bowker
British Dictionary definitions for trademark
/ (ˈtreɪdˌmɑːk) /
the name or other symbol used to identify the goods produced by a particular manufacturer or distributed by a particular dealer and to distinguish them from products associated with competing manufacturers or dealers. A trademark that has been officially registered and is therefore legally protected is known as a Registered Trademark
any distinctive sign or mark of the presence of a person or animal
to label with a trademark
to register as a trademark
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