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Wikivoyage:Trademarks Voyage Tips and guide

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    A trademarks is a legal instrument that companies and individuals can use to preserve their own or their products' reputations. This guideline discusses the use of trademarks in Wikivoyage.

    It's perfectly OK to use a trademark to refer to the object or company. That is, if you're talking about Disneyland, call it Disneyland.

    Trademark symbols

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    Firms and individuals often use the ® (registered trademark), ™ (trademark), or ℠ (service mark) symbols when referring to their own products, names, or services. This notifies the public that the word or image used is a trademark.

    However, no one else is required to use the ™ or other symbols. Since typically only trademark owners use these symbols, they usually end up on promotional literature, ads, boxes, etc. Using these symbols on Wikivoyage makes it look like promotional literature, or that we're pandering to the trademark holders. They also clutter up our guides with extra "noise" characters that don't serve any purpose. For these reasons, avoid using the ™, ®, or ℠ symbols.

    Trademark disclaimers

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    Promotional literature also often has trademark notices at the end: Foo and the Foo logo are trademarks of The Foo Company. Again, we are under no obligation to make these statements, so we can safely avoid trademark disclaimers.

    Trademark redirects

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    Where one company has a monopoly or near-monopoly, in rare instances we redirect the trademarked name to the generic article; for instance, AmtrakRail travel in the United States.

    Trademarks used as generic nouns

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    Some trademarks are used as generic nouns in daily speech. When describing a generic product (at least when competitors are available), a non-proprietary noun should be preferred; see Wikivoyage:Words to avoid.

    A brief list of such trademarks frequently used by travellers:

    Trademarked name Generic name
    Airbnb Hospitality exchange
    Astroturf Artificial turf
    Cashpoint Cash machine, ATM
    Jacuzzi Hot tub
    Jeep Terrain vehicle
    Jet ski Water scooter
    Kleenex Facial tissue
    Learjet Business jet
    Memory stick Flash memory
    Rollerblades Inline skates
    Segway Personal transporter
    Tarmac Asphalt
    Uber Ride hailing services
    Velcro Hook-and-loop fastener
    Vespa Motor scooter
    ZIP code postcode

    See Wikipedia's list of those. See also English language varieties as many are distinctly regional in use.


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