to trademark
- verb
- /ˈtreɪdˌmɑrk/
- Specialized
- Somehow, The Village Voice has managed to trademark the use of "best of."
- trademark the name
- trademarked products
- trademarked goods
What if she had tried to trademark the word sari instead?
- What if she had tried to trademark the word sari instead?
- Her lawyers trademarked it so other people cannot post it.
- I think they should trademark this as buzzkill, so that's pretty cool.
- Bubble wrap is a trademarked name.
- They're they're a band that can't get their band name trademark because it's seen as an anti Asian epithet.
- It became such a huge catch phrase that I trademarked it and I own That's odd because I invented that's odd.
- I'm, I actually have trademarked my business and I just said, OK, let's take a step back because I know all of that seems so important right now.
- like I'm going to use that I will trademark you. I'll trademark you full is crazy. I don't like
Examples
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I am known as the Snake Man, have been so for decades, and have trademarked the name accordingly.
Blog text (21) -
Traditionally, video game developers have paid premium prices to license the rights to trademarked products.
Academic text (2016) -
There have been at least 17 approved applications to trademark the phrase "Let's roll" since September 11, 2001.
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I just quickly say, have you trademarked your brand?
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Her lawyers trademarked it so other people cannot post it.
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One corollary of this was the decision to trademark the name of the church, which it completed in 1981.
Academic text (1998) -
We do own Inside Out Beauty Labs and that was so that we could trademark Ceramide RX.
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A video game manufacturer may combat a trademark infringement claim by asserting that its use of a trademarked product is protected by nominative fair use.
Academic text (2016) -
It became such a huge catch phrase that I trademarked it and I own That's odd because I invented that's odd.
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The company decided to trademark its unique logo to protect its brand identity.
Synonyms
To mark an animal with a hot iron to show ownership
To put a name or logo on a product to show who made it
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To trademark something comes from the old idea of putting a mark ('sign') on goods to show who made them. Today to trademark means to officially register a name or symbol so others cannot use it.