trademarkとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From trade +‎ mark.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪdmɑː(ɹ)k/

名詞

trademark (複数形 trademarks)

2. A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
3. Any proprietary business, product or service name.
   • 2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv:

     Trademark Notice / The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies: […] Google is a trademark of Google Corporation; eBay is a trademark of eBay, Inc.

4. The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.

派生した語

• → Bengali: ট্রেডমার্ক (ṭreḍmark)
• → Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (ṭreḍmārk)

参考

• brand
• registered trademark
• service mark
• wordmark
• ™

動詞

trademark (三人称単数 現在形 trademarks, 現在分詞 trademarking, 過去形および過去分詞形 trademarked)

1. (proscribed) To register something as a trademark.
2. (proscribed) To so label a product.

使用する際の注意点

• Among practitioners of trademark law, it is generally considered incorrect to use “trademark” as a verb; the preferred terminology would be to use a trademark or to register a trademark.

形容詞

trademark (not comparable)

1. (informal) Distinctive, characteristic, signature.
   • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:

     Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'

   • 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.