Trade-mark

The special marks and devices of spool-cotton are trade-marks clearly. But the right to use a firm name in a given business is both. Consequently the decisions of the courts have frequently spoken of incidents of good-will as incidents of trade-marks, and vice versa.

Seven basic recommendations for revision of international protection of trade-marks were made public yesterday by the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. The recommendations are contained in a report entitled "Increasing International Trade With World-Wide Protection of Trade-Marks," prepared by the council's committee on international protection of industrial property.

The word trampoline, The Bulletin has been notified, is patented as a trade-mark. If we use the name, we are advised, we must identify it as a trade-mark of a certain company that makes rebound tumbling equipment.

The manufacturer has trade-marked the new type the "Stratoliner." […] Trade-marked the “Stratoliner,” this new Boeing plane will carry thirty-three passengers in a cabin sealed and supercharged for maintaining sea-level atmospheric conditions as high as 20,000 feet above the earth.

Because the Nissen firm has trade-marked Trampoline, and Trampolining, there’s no such common noun as trampoline or trampolining.

Ridgeview has trade-marked the word "merret" to describe its English sparkling wine.

Many of the Americans’ garments displayed the telltale folds of a shirt just out of the store. Only press spokesman Bernard Kalb held out, sticking to suits and his trade-mark wide orange tie.

In 1971, deeply committed to Labour's left wing, Dyke decided that newspaper journalism was too 'glib' and went to York University to take stock and study politics (by now he had his trade-mark beard and long hair; his specialist subject was Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution).

[Shunsuke] Nakamura struck his 23rd goal for Japan with one of his trade-mark free kicks to beat visiting Bahrain, 1-0, in Saitama.