What does the little ® mean?

registered…the ® stands for a registered trade mark

The use of a trademark to sell a product or service means that its owned automatically. Just because you don’t see a (TM), (SM), or an (R) doesn’t mean that you can use it without permission.

There is an application fee of about $245.00. All trademarks that are filed, are published in the Official Gazette to wait for somebody to challenge the mark. If nobody objects, the trademark is published in a list called the Principal Register. A trademark search has to be done before a trademark is registered to make sure it hasn’t been used by someone else.

Anybody can use the computers at special libraries around the country to do a trademark search. These libraries are called Patent Depository and Trademark Libraries.

The registration with the federal government protects it legally throughout the United States. The trademark must be registered in other countries too. Many countries have signed agreements to respect trademarks registered in other countries.

Well, you’ve had your question answered over & over again but I wanted to throw in my two cents…

Just because a company uses the ® symbol does NOT mean they have a registered trademark. That is the proper, technical way to use it but not everyone does. There’s also the ™ symbol, which either means there’s a pending trademark application OR the company is claiming rights to the mark.

Another intellectual property symbol, ©, is for copyrights.

I posted a link to a great resource site if you’re interested in reading further.

Hope that helps!

Registered Trademark

Registered Trademark

It stands for Federal Registration, and is also called a Registered Trademark.

The federal registration symbol may be used once the mark is actually registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Even though an application is pending, the registration symbol may not be used before the mark has actually become registered. The federal registration symbol should only be used on goods or services that are the subject of the federal trademark registration. [Note: Several foreign countries use the letter R enclosed within a circle to indicate that a mark is registered in that country. Use of the symbol by the holder of a foreign registration may be proper.

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Registered Mark

Registered Trademark.

Under U.S. trademark law, the R-in-a-circle symbol (®) may only be used in connection with a mark if that mark is a federally registered trademark. By “federally registered” we mean that the trademark owner has not only filed a trademark registration application with the US Patent & Trademark Office, but has been granted a registration. In contrast, the TM and SM symbols may be used freely without respect to whether or not there is a federal trademark registration. If you are offering goods or services, you may freely use the TM or SM symbol to denote trademarks or service marks that you use to indicate the origin of your goods or services.

Registered

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What does the little ® mean?

can any tell me what the little ® R means i see it all the time next to company names and so on any one know what it means.