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.

External links

Trade Mark Offices

See also intellectual property organizations

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• Australia IP Australia
• Canada Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• European Union Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
• Hong Kong HK Intellectual Property Department
• United Kingdom UK Patent Office
• United States U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Germany Deutsches Patent und Markenamt

Trade mark databases / searches

• Australia IP Australia
• Canada CIPO
• European Union (CTM) OHIM
• Hong Kong HK IPD
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (Madrid system) WIPO Madrid Express
• United Kingdom UK Patent Office
• United States United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Welcome to the non-traditional Trade Mark Archives — the non-traditional trade marks archives of Ralf Sieckmann includes a data base of trade marks in the field of sound, smell, taste, texture, motion, holograms worldwide

Trade mark organizations

• INTA The International Trademark Association
• WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation
• WIPO trademarks homepage

Trade mark resources

• Pipers virtual intellectual property library
• Visiobrand brand directory
• Directory of trade names in Webster's Online Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition
• trademark caselaw and press ticker
• USPTO Stopfakes.gov Small Business Resources

Miscellaneous resources

• INTA Trademark Law FAQ

Brand scorecards

• BusinessWeek/Interbrand 2002
• BusinessWeek/Interbrand 2003

Guidelines on the use of trademarks

• 3Com
• Adobe

Branding & Design

• All About Branding (English)
• Brandchannel (English)
• Logoterra directory of logo design service providers
• Brandmarker project by the art group Monochrom, which attempted to evaluate the actual power of commercial brands by making people draw famous logos from memory.

Corporate identity

• cidoc (English)
• Corporate Identity Portal (German/English)
• "a website about corporate identity" (English)

Articles

• I like Brands on the Globalization Institute website