Re: Special characters, such as TM, in web page titles

[Deborah Hemstreet <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>]

Hi Bear,

Actually, even if a technical publication, this can be a dangerous 
practice. I took a course on Trademark law, and something interesting 
that I learned is that legally, every instance of a use of a tradename 
without the symbol TM or R provides legitimate evidence for moving that 
tradename into common use - at which point the company loses the rights 
to their tradename. It seems that company's often endanger their own 
trademarks without being aware of it! At a minimum, I would suggest you 
have the trademarks listed on a credits page (or whatever you call the 
page following the title page) as trademarks owned by your company. In 
addition, a simple statement, "Third party trademarks are the property 
of their respective owners" (I looked it up for correct working) should 
be adequate to cover any trademarks that are not your own. That way you 
don't have to but anything in the text about the trademarks of others.

Hope this contributes to the discussion.

Deborah

On 02/09/2011 9:42 AM, Chinell, Bear UTCFS wrote: