trademark

See also: trade mark

English

Alternative forms

• trade mark

Etymology

trade +‎ mark

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪdmɑː(ɹ)k/

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Adjective

trademark (not comparable)

1. (informal) distinctive, characteristic, signature
   • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:

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

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

     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)

• Spanish: marca de la casa, consabido (es)

Noun

trademark (plural trademarks)

2. A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
3. 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.

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

Related terms

• registered trademark
• service mark
• wordmark

Translations

identification of a company's product

• Arabic: عَلَامَة تِجَارِيَّة‎ (ar) f (ʿalāma tijāriyya)
• Armenian: ապրանքային նշան (hy) (aprankʿayin nšan)
• Burmese: ကုန်အမှတ်တံဆိပ် (kun-a.hmattamhcip)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商標 (zh), 商标 (zh) (shāngbiāo), 牌子 (zh) (páizi), 品牌 (zh) (pǐnpái)

• Czech: ochranná známka f
• Danish: varemærke
• Dutch: handelsmerk (nl) n
• Finnish: tavaramerkki (fi)
• French: marque commerciale (fr)
• German: Marke (de) f, Warenzeichen n
• Hebrew: סימן מסחר‎
• Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (hi) m (ṭrēḍmārk)
• Icelandic: vörumerki n
• Ido: fabriko-marko (io)
• Italian: marchio registrato m

• Japanese: 商標 (しょうひょう, shōhyō)
• Kazakh: сауда таңбасы (sawda tañbası)
• Korean: 상표 (ko) (sangpyo) (商標 (ko))
• Malay: tanda dagang
• Norwegian: varemerke
• Portuguese: marca registrada f, marca (pt) f
• Romanian: marcă înregistrată f, marcă (ro) f
• Russian: това́рный знак m (továrnyj znak)
• Spanish: marca registrada (es) f, marca (es) f
• Swedish: varumärke (sv)
• Tagalog: tatak-kalakal
• Thai: เครื่องหมายการค้า (krêuang măai gaan káa)
• Urdu: نشان تجارہ‎
• Vietnamese: thương hiệu (vi) (商號)

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.