[Noisebridge-discuss] Letter to MakerBot?

[Cliff L. Biffle]

You can put a tm after essentially anything.  It does not indicate a
registered trademark.  Your event predates their use in commerce by months,
and Star Trek has priority over both of you by 20 years.

This is not something worth worrying about.
On Jan 10, 2012 4:25 PM, "Elijah Post" <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did the exact same search and saw that there was no MakerBot trade mark,
> I get it.
>
> But go to the MakerBot website. What do you see? It has a (tm) everywhere
> after it says replicator. That kind of ticks me off.
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:
>
>> 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
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