Trademark symbol

Not to be confused with Registered trademark symbol, Copyright symbol, or Service mark symbol.
"™" redirects here. For other uses, see TM (disambiguation) and Trademark (disambiguation).

™
Trademark symbol
In UnicodeU+2122 ™ TRADE MARK SIGN (HTML ™)
Different from
Different fromU+2120 ℠ SERVICE MARK
U+00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
Related
See alsoU+1F16A 🅪 RAISED MC SIGN
U+1F12E 🄮 CIRCLED WZ
U+24C2 Ⓜ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
Look up ™ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The trademark symbol ™ is a symbol to indicate that the preceding mark is a trademark, specifically an unregistered trademark. It complements the registered trademark symbol ® which is reserved for trademarks registered with an appropriate government agency.[1]

In Canada, an equivalent marque de commerce symbol, (U+1F16A 🅪 RAISED MC SIGN) is used in Quebec.[2] Canada also has an official mark symbol, ⟨Ⓜ⟩, to indicate that a name or design used by Canadian public authorities is protected.[3] Some German publications, especially dictionaries, also use a Warenzeichen grapheme, (U+1F12E 🄮 CIRCLED WZ), which is informative and independent of the actual protection status of the name.[4]

  1. ^ "Protecting Your Trademark" (PDF). USPTO. United States Patent & Trademark Office. August 2019. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  2. ^ Pentzlin, Karl (June 11, 2010). "Proposal to encode two Letterlike Symbols for Canadian legal use in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Pidowich, Mark (July 27, 2011). "Official marks — a uniquely Canadian concept". Smart & Biggar. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  4. ^ Pentzlin, Karl (February 27, 2009). "Proposal to encode a German trademark symbol in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020.