trademark

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtreɪdmɑː(r)k/, X-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.

Translations

distinctive, characteristic

• Finnish: tunnusomainen (fi)

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.
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), 牌子 (cmn) (páizi), 品牌 (cmn) (pǐnpái)

• 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))
• Malay: tanda dagang (ms)
• 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.