[Noisebridge-discuss] Letter to MakerBot?

[Leif Ryge]

On 01/10/2012 03:54 PM, Martin Bogomolni wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Elijah Post<elijahpost at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I feel that because MakerBot has a great deal of press, and also
>> is  putting a "TM" symbol after every single time the word 'replicator'
>> appears,  that we at least owe them a letter.
>> [...]
>
>A search of TESS (Trademark search on the PTO website) does not show
> any marks registered to MakerBot Industries for "Replicator"  Right
> now they have the following registered trademarks:
>[...]
> So, as far as these things go .. They don't yet have the (tm) to go
> with their Replicator mark.

The superscript tm (™) symbol is for unregistered trademarks. Registered 
trademarks are designated by an R in a circle (®).
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

~leif