trademark

See also:trade mark

English

Alternative forms

• trade mark

Etymology

Fromtrade+‎mark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈtɹeɪdmɑː(ɹ)k/

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• Rhymes:-eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
• Hyphenation:trade‧mark

Noun

trademark(pluraltrademarks)

2. Aword,symbol,orphraseused to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.

   Antonyms:generic name;description

   Coordinate terms:brandname,brand name,service mark,tradename,trade name,wordmark

   1. Especially, such a term that isregisteredwith a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies.
3. Any proprietary business, product or service name.
   • 2005,Kai A. Olsen,The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness,page xv:

     TrademarkNotice / The following aretrademarksor registeredtrademarksof their respective companies:[…]Google is atrademarkof Google Corporation; eBay is atrademarkof eBay, Inc.

4. The aspect for which someone or something is best known; ahallmarkor typical characteristic.

Derived terms

• genericised trademark
• genericized trademark
• registered trademark
• trademark dilution
• trademark erosion
• trademark infringement
• trademark symbol
• trademark troll

Descendants

• →Bengali:ট্রেডমার্ক(ṭreḍomark)
• →Hindi:ट्रेडमार्क(ṭreḍmārk)

Translations

identification of a company's product

• Arabic:عَلَامَة تِجَارِيَّة(ar)f(ʕalāma tijāriyya)
• Armenian:ապրանքային նշան(hy)(aprankʻayin nšan)
• Bengali:ট্রেডমার্ক(bn)(ṭreḍomark)
• Bulgarian:търговска маркаf(tǎrgovska marka)
• Burmese:ကုန်အမှတ်တံဆိပ်(kun-a.hmattamhcip)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nhãn hiệu／Nhãn hiệu(zh)(shāngbiāo),Thẻ bài(zh)(páizi),Nhãn hiệu(zh)(pǐnpái)

• Czech:ochranná známkaf
• Danish:varemærke
• Dutch:handelsmerk(nl)n
• Finnish:tavaramerkki(fi)
• French:marque commerciale(fr)
• German:Marke(de)f,Warenzeichenn
• Hebrew:סימן מסחר
• Hindi:ट्रेडमार्क(hi)m(ṭreḍmārk)
• Hungarian:védjegy(hu),márkanév(hu)
• Icelandic:vörumerkin
• Ido:fabriko-marko(io)
• Indonesian:merek dagang(id)
• Italian:marchio registratom
• Japanese:Nhãn hiệu(ja)(しょうひょう, shōhyō)
• Kazakh:сауда таңбасы(sauda tañbasy)
• Korean:상표( nhãn hiệu )(ko)(sangpyo)
• Malay:tanda dagang
• Maori:mokopakihi
• Norwegian:varemerke
• Portuguese:marca registrada(pt)f,marca(pt)f
• Romanian:marcă înregistratăf,marcă(ro)f
• Russian:това́рный знак(ru)m(továrnyj znak)
• Spanish:marca registrada(es)f,marca(es)f
• Swedish:varumärke(sv)
• Tagalog:tatak-kalakal
• Thai:เครื่องหมายการค้า(th)(krêuang măai gaan káa)
• Urdu:نشان تجارہ
• Vietnamese:thương hiệu(vi)(Hiệu buôn)

See also

• brand
• branding
• ™
• ®

Verb

trademark(third-person singular simple presenttrademarks,present participletrademarking,simple past and past participletrademarked)

1. (transitive,proscribed)Toregistersomething as atrademark.
2. (transitive,proscribed)To solabela product.

Usage notes

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

Adjective

trademark(notcomparable)

1. (informal)Distinctive,characteristic,signature.
   • 1996,Jon Byrell,Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers,Sydney: Ironbark, page294:

     Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed thattrademarklaugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'

   • 2011October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, inBBC Sport‎^[1]:

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

Translations

distinctive, characteristic

• Finnish:tunnusomainen(fi)
• Hungarian:jellegzetes(hu)
• Spanish:marca de la casa,consabido(es)
• Thai:ที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์(tîi-bpen-èek-gà-lák)

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