Trademark Resource

We can (and should!) identify registered trademarks, trademarks, and service marks in edX user guides.

Identifying Trademarked Terms

  • For documents published in the US, the guidance is to include the appropriate ™, ℠, or ® symbol "on first use".
  • For international publications, translators should determine whether an attribution page should be provided in addition to or in place of these symbols.
  • Trademarks are adjectives, not nouns. Be sure to follow the trademarked term with the appropriate generic term on first use. For example, use "an iPhone® mobile device" rather than "iPhone®"; "on a Mac® computer" rather than "on a Mac®".

Adding Symbols in Sublime 3

Copy one of the following symbols and paste it into your .rst file. (Clunky, but it works...)

  • Registered trademark symbol:  ®
  • Trademark symbol: ™
  • Service mark symbol:  ℠

References

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/

Apple: http://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/appletmlist.html

Google: https://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/our-trademarks.html

Linux: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark/attribution  

Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/en-us.aspx#096c2b52-4010-4e38-9c79-59a828f1500e

Python: https://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/