Registered trademark symbol
Typographical symbol (®)
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Registered trademark symbol
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In Unicode | U+00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN ( & reg;, & REG;, & circledR; ) |
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Different from | U+24C7 Ⓡ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R |
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U+2122
™
TRADE MARK SIGN
U+2120 ℠ SERVICE MARK |
The registered trademark symbol , ® , is a typographic symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office. A trademark is a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company, product or service. [1] [2]
Unregistered trademarks can instead be marked with the trademark symbol , ™ , while unregistered service marks are marked with the service mark symbol , ℠ . The proper manner to display these symbols is immediately following the mark; the symbol is commonly in superscript style, but that is not legally required. In many jurisdictions, only registered trademarks confer easily defended legal rights. [3]
In the US, the registered trademark symbol was originally introduced in the Trademark Act of 1946 . [ citation needed ]
Because the ® symbol is not commonly available on typewriters (or ASCII ), it was common to approximate it with the characters (R) (or (r) ). [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] An example of a legal equivalent is the phrase Registered, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , which may be abbreviated to Reg U.S. Pat & TM Off. [5] in the US. [2]
Computer usage
The registered trademark character was added to several extended ASCII character sets, including ISO-8859-1 from which it was inherited by Unicode as U+00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN . [6]
Related and similar symbols
- The trademark symbol , ™, used for unregistered trademarks
- The service mark symbol , ℠, used for unregistered service marks
- The copyright symbol , ©
- The sound recording copyright symbol , ℗
- The Orthodox Union hechsher symbol, Ⓤ
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Notes
- ↑ for example the Python programming language Trademark Usage Policy advocates this usage. [4]
- ↑ Most word processors will autocorrect these two sequences to a proper ® symbol.
References
- ↑ For example, "Intellectual property office" . Government of the United Kingdom . Retrieved 5 June 2020 .
- 1 2 "15 U.S.C. 1111" . Retrieved 15 December 2005 .
- ↑ For example "Unregistered Trade Marks" . Government of the United Kingdom . Retrieved 5 June 2020 .
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"PSF Trademark Usage Policy"
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The first or most prominent mention of a Python trademark should be immediately followed by a symbol for registered trademark: "®" or "(r)".
- ↑ Gregory H. Guillot. A Guide to Proper Trademark Use. 1995–2007. http://www.ggmark.com/guide.html
- ↑ "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement | Range: 0080–00FF" (PDF) . Unicode Consortium . 2016.
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