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> First, ditch the TM symbol. To enforce the trademark, legally, it
only needs
> to be in the frontmatter where the trademarks are defined
> and on the first reference in the manual. Including elsewhere
isn't
> necessary and looks amateurish, although if you're converting to
> online media, it wouldn't hurt to use it on the first reference
of each
> chapter.
How do you handle online help that was never a manual in the first
place (such as context sensitive WinHelp or HTML files)? Do you
trademark the first instance in each topic (or HTML file)? Or is a
section
entitled "Legal Notices", with all the standard copyright/trademark
information,
sufficient?
Dawn-Marie Oliver
Concur Technologies
dawn-marie -at- concur -dot- com
"All opinions expressed in this message are mine. My company and I
prefer
it that way."
