trademark

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtreɪdmɑː(r)k/, SAMPA: /"treIdmA:(r)k/

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Adjective

trademark (not comparable)

1. (informal) distinctive, characteristic, signature
   • 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, BBC Sport:

     Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.

Noun

trademark (plural trademarks)

1. A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products. Indicated by the symbol ™, when registered with a government authority it is sometimes indicated by the symbol ®.
2. Any proprietary business, product or service name.
   • 2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv:

     Trademark Notice / The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies: […] Google is a trademark of Google Corporation; eBay is a trademark of eBay, Inc.

Related terms

• registered trademark
• service mark
• wordmark

Translations

identification of a company's product

Arabic: علامة تجارية (ar) (3alaama tajaaríyya) f. Armenian: ապրանքային նշան (hy) (aprank'ayin nëšan) Chinese: Mandarin: 商標 (cmn), 商标 (cmn) (shāngbiāo) Czech: ochranná známka (cs) f. Danish: varemærke (da) Dutch: handelsmerk (nl) n. Finnish: tavaramerkki (fi) French: marque commerciale (fr) German: Marke (de) f., Warenzeichen (de) n. Hebrew: סימן מסחר (he) Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (hi) (ṭrēḍmārk) m.

Icelandic: vörumerki (is) n. Japanese: 商標 (ja) (しょうひょう, shōhyō) Korean: 상표 (ko) (sangpyo) (商標 (ko)) Norwegian: varemerke (no) Portuguese: marca registrada (pt) f., marca (pt) f. Romanian: marcă înregistrată (ro) f., marcă (ro) f. Russian: товарный знак (ru) (továrnyj znak) m. Spanish: marca registrada (es) f., marca (es) f. Swedish: varumärke (sv) Thai: เครื่องหมายการค้า (th) (krêuang măai gaan káa) Urdu: نشان تجارہ (ur) Vietnamese: thương hiệu (vi) (商標 (vi))

See also

• brand

Verb

trademark (third-person singular simple present trademarks, present participle trademarking, simple past and past participle trademarked)

1. To register something as a trademark.
2. To so label a product.

Usage notes

Among practitioners of trademark law, it is generally considered incorrect to use “trademark” as a verb; the preferred terminology would be to use a trademark or to register a trademark.