trademark usage questions

Subject: trademark usage questions
From: Chris Hamilton <chamilton -at- GR -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:16:21 -0500

Good afternoon (or morning or whatever it is where you are).

I need a sanity check on the following text to make sure it follows
trademark usage laws correctly:

"...it allows you to use development tools, such as PowerBuilder(TM) or
Visual Basic(R)."

At first glance, this construction might appear to be wrong because
PowerBuilder and Visual Basic appear to be used as nouns. But then I
started thinking that the quote is kind of like saying:

"it comes in a variety of colors, such as red or purple."

In this construction, red and purple are adjectives that describe
colors. Would the same hold true for my actual construction in the first
quotation?

Thanks.

Chris
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