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to trademark

to trademark

11 4.4
To officially register a name, symbol, or design so others cannot use it
  • verb
  • /ˈtreɪdˌmɑrk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : registrar como marca
  • 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?

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Examples

  • I am known as the Snake Man, have been so for decades, and have trademarked the name accordingly.

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  • 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?

  • Her lawyers trademarked it so other people cannot post it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The company decided to trademark its unique logo to protect its brand identity.

Synonyms

to brand
vsto trademark
29 3.0

To mark an animal with a hot iron to show ownership

is about formally registering names or symbols rather than physical marking
to brandmark
vsto trademark
6.6

To put a name or logo on a product to show who made it

is about officially registering a name or symbol rather than physical marking

Surface Forms

trademark infinitive
trademarked past participle
trademarking present participle
trademarks third person singular

Morphology

trademark = trademark (transparent) = trade + mark

The verb is a regular conversion from the noun 'trademark', and its meaning is directly based on making something a trademark.

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.