1 edit | There are two forms of trademarking. One is a registered trademark, which is obtained by formally registering the trademark with the appropriate trademarking authority of your country, and paying any required fees, and entitles the owner to bear the encircled R mark, as in for example FrigginGadget®.
The other is the so-called poor-man's trade mark, which the trademark claimant simply claims by publicly using the mark with an appended raised ™, as in NAizer™, and doesn't cost a penny, nor requires any form of formal registration. The claimant does have a year to actually start marketing and selling the product for which the trademark is claimed, from the time it's first claimed, or the trademark becomes null and void.
The former trademark type does provide stronger legal protection, though, as its validity can more easily be verified and established, should it ever be challenged in court.
You can read more about it at the US Patent and Trademark office's web site. I'm not sure which the proper authority is in Canada, but trademarking rules are generally consistent throughout most western countries and elsewhere, through international trade agreements.
In the post you quoted, I thus made a public claim to the trademark. However, I did make a mistake, though, as writing tm in parentheses isn't the correct way of doing it--it has to actually be a raised TM appended to the claimed name. I have since corrected it, and again lay claim to NAizer™ as my trademark for any software and/or hardware product that permamently alters and/or removes the customization of any provider customized ATA or other embedded device.
I am actually the one who came up with and coined the verb to NAize (NAizing, etc) (in behind the scenes communications with various members of this forum, as well as posts here at DSLR), but it isn't something I believe or feel I could trademark, as it's now become so widely used (at least at this site). However, the specific noun NAizer, very much is something that I can trademark under the trademark rules, provided of course that noone else already has laid claim to it for a similar product. |
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