Unregistered Trade Mark

Unregistered Trademark (even Unregistered Trade- marks and Unregistered Trademark ) is the trademark of the Anglo -American legal system as well as of countries that have joined this right, the technical term for an unregistered goods brand.

Marks, which are not yet officially registered in a (at least national ) Brand directory of that jurisdiction, for the time being with the " Unregistered Trademark " symbol " ™ " can be characterized by what they have already confirmed an increased legal status. In Germany and Austria the Trade Mark brings icon no advantages. Upon registration trademarks may with the " registered Trademark " symbol " ®" are identified, which is also used to identify officially registered service marks.

The Unregistered Trade Mark Symbol is a small superscript "TM ", which is added after the name of brand goods. This symbol has the Unicode block characters like symbols the code U 2122. The HTML notation reads ™, ™ or ™. Under Microsoft Windows CP1252 with the character with the key combination Alt 0153 can be entered, but a three-digit number by CP850 has not the character. In ISO 6937, the character has index 0xD4. On Linux systems with newer versions of X11, the characters by Compose TM can enter. In GTK - or Qt -based applications, it may also by pressing Ctrl Shift U, 2122 and then pressing spacebar or Enter are generated. Under Mac OS X it is generated on the German keyboard by pressing Alt Shift D.