Trademark


 

A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark){{an|styling}} is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. A trademark is a type of intellectual property, and in particular, a type of industrial property.

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Commonwealth English - Sign - Business - Product - Service - Consumer - Intellectual property - Industrial property

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Conventionally, a trademark comprises a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of one or more of these elements. There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks which do not fall into these standard categories.

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Logo - Symbol - Non-conventional trademark

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The essential function of a trademark is to serve as an exclusive identifier of the commercial source or origin of products or services, such that a trademark, properly called, indicates source or acts as a badge of origin. The use of a trademark in this way is known as trademark use, and a trademark owner seeks to enforce its rights or interests in a trademark by preventing unauthorised trademark use.

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Introduction
Terminology and symbols
Establishing trademark rights — use and registration
Registrability and distinctive character
Maintaining trademark rights — abandonment and genericide
Enforcing trademark rights
Other aspects
International trade mark laws
See also
External links
Notes

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