Unregistered trade mark

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Unregistered Trade Mark (also Unregistered Trade Mark or Unregistered Trademark ) is the technical term for an unregistered trademark in the trademark law of the Anglo-American legal circle and of states that have subscribed to this right .

Trademarks that are not yet officially registered in a (at least national) trademark register of this legal group can be temporarily identified with the “Unregistered Trade Mark” symbol “™”, which already confirms their elevated legal status . In Germany and Austria, the trademark symbol has no advantages. After registration, trademarks can be marked with the “ Registered Trade Mark ” symbol “®”, which is also used to identify officially registered service marks .

The unregistered trade mark symbol is a small superscript "TM" that is added after the name of the brand. This symbol has the code in the Unicode block Letter-like symbolsU+2122 . The HTML notation is ™, ™or ™. Under Microsoft Windows with CP1252 the character Alt+0153can be entered with the key combination , but the character does not have a three-digit number after CP850 . In ISO 6937 the character has the position 0xD4. On Linux systems with newer versions of X11 , the character can be entered with Compose+ TM. In GTK + or Qt -based applications it can also be generated by pressing Strg+ Umschalttaste+ U, 2122and then pressing the Space or Enter key . Under Mac OS X it is generated with a German keyboard layout using Alt+ Shift+ D. In the text typesetting system TeX or with software packages based on it, such as B. LaTeX the character is also \texttrademarkgenerated.

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  1. ↑ The spelling trademark (in one word) is only common in the United States and the Philippines . The spelling trade mark (in two words) is used in many other countries around the world, including in the case law of the countries of the European Union and the Commonwealth as well as in former Commonwealth countries. In Canada , the official spelling is trade-mark , under the Trade-mark Act ; in addition, the spellings trade mark and trademark are very common.
  2. ↑ A trademark can be a manufacturer's mark or a trade mark .