Registered trademark symbol

Typographical symbol (®)

For other uses, see Trademark (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with the character Ⓡ (see Enclosed Alphanumerics) or ™ (the trademark symbol) or © (the copyright symbol) or ℠ (the service mark symbol).

Registered trademark symbol

In Unicode| U+00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN (&reg;, &REG;, &circledR;)
Different from
Different from| U+24C7 Ⓡ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
Related
See also| U+2122 ™ TRADE MARK SIGN
U+2120 ℠ SERVICE MARK

The registered trademark symbol, ®, is a typographic symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office. A trademark is a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company, product or service.[1][2]

Unregistered trademarks can instead be marked with the trademark symbol, ™, while unregistered service marks are marked with the service mark symbol, ℠. The proper manner to display these symbols is immediately following the mark; the symbol is commonly in superscript style, but that is not legally required. In many jurisdictions, only registered trademarks confer easily defended legal rights.[3]

In the US, the registered trademark symbol was originally introduced in the Trademark Act of 1946.[citation needed]

Because the ® symbol is not commonly available on typewriters (or ASCII), it was common to approximate it with the characters (R) (or (r)).[a][b] An example of a legal equivalent is the phrase Registered, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which may be abbreviated to Reg U.S. Pat & TM Off.[5] in the US.[2]

## Computer usage

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The registered trademark character was added to several extended ASCII character sets, including ISO-8859-1 from which it was inherited by Unicode as U+00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN.[6]

## See also

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* The trademark symbol, U+2122 ™ TRADE MARK SIGN, used for unregistered trademarks
* The service mark symbol, U+2120 ℠ SERVICE MARK, used for unregistered service marks
* The copyright symbol, U+00A9 (C) COPYRIGHT SIGN
* The sound recording copyright symbol, U+2117 ℗ SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT
* The Orthodox Union hechsher symbol, U+24CA Ⓤ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
* Marque de commerce symbol, U+1F16A 🅪 RAISED MC SIGN, is used in Quebec.
* Official mark symbol, U+24C2 Ⓜ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M, used in Canada also has an to indicate that a name or design used by Canadian public authorities is protected.
* Warenzeichen grapheme, U+1F12E 🄮 CIRCLED WZ, used in some German publications, especially dictionaries, as informative and independent of the actual protection status of the name.

## Notes

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1. ^ for example the Python programming language Trademark Usage Policy advocates this usage.[4]
2. ^ Most word processors will autocorrect these two sequences to a proper ® symbol.

## References

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1. ^ For example, "Intellectual property office". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
2. ^ a b "15 U.S.C. 1111". Retrieved 15 December 2005.
3. ^ For example "Unregistered Trade Marks". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
4. ^ "PSF Trademark Usage Policy". "The first or most prominent mention of a Python trademark should be immediately followed by a symbol for registered trademark: "®" or "(r)"."
5. ^ Gregory H. Guillot. A Guide to Proper Trademark Use. 1995–2007. http://www.ggmark.com/guide.html
6. ^ "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement | Range: 0080–00FF" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. 2016.

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The letter R

General|

* Rhotic consonants (R-like sounds)
* Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
* Pronunciation of English /r/
* Rhoticity in English
* R-colored vowel
* Rhotacism
* Guttural R
* Linking and intrusive R

Pronunciations|

* Voiceless alveolar trill [r̥]
* Voiced alveolar trill [r]
* Voiced alveolar or postalveolar approximant [ɹ]
* Voiceless alveolar tap [ɾ̥]
* Voiced alveolar tap [ɾ]
* Voiced alveolar lateral flap [ɺ]
* Voiced retroflex approximant [ɻ]
* Voiced retroflex flap [ɽ]
* Voiced retroflex trill [ɽr]
* Voiced velar approximant [ɰ]
* Voiced velar bunched approximant [ɹ̈]
* Voiceless velar fricative [x]
* Voiced velar fricative [ɣ]
* Voiceless uvular trill [ʀ̥]
* Voiced uvular trill [ʀ]
* Voiceless uvular fricative [χ]
* Voiced uvular fricative [ʁ]
* Voiced pharyngeal fricative [ʕ]
* Voiceless glottal fricative [h]
* Voiced glottal fricative [ɦ]

Variations|

* Ꝛꝛ (R rotunda)
* Ꞃꞃ (Insular)
* Ɽɽ (R with tail)
* Ɍɍ (R with stroke)
* Ʀʀ
* Ȑȑ
* Ŕŕ
* Ŗŗ
* Řř
* Ȓȓ
* R̃r̃
* Ṙṙ
* Ṛṛ
* R̄r̄
* Ṝṝ
* Ṟṟ
* Rd
* Rh
* Rl
* Rm
* Rn
* Rp
* Rr
* Rs
* Rt
* Rw
* Rz
* Rnd
* ᚱ (Raidô)
* ℝ (Real number)
* ® (Registered trademark symbol)
* Ⓡ (Enclosed R)
* ℞ (Medical prescription)

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Trademark law

Concepts|

* Distinctiveness
* Dilution
* Generic trademark
* Passing off
* Concurrent use
* Priority right
* Coexistence agreement
* Confusing similarity
* Functionality doctrine
* Initial interest confusion
* Good faith doctrine
* Fair use
* Secondary liability
* Nominative use
* Disparagement
* Reputation parasitism
* Cybersquatting
* Parallel import
* Well-known trademark

Treaties|

* Paris Convention
* Madrid Agreement
* Madrid Protocol
* TRIPS
* Singapore Treaty
* Community Trade Mark
* Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy

Country|

* Australia
* Canada
* China
* European Union
* Hong Kong
* India
* Ireland
* Japan
* Oman
* Philippines
* United Kingdom
* United States

Types|

| Standard|

* Registered trademark
* Service mark
* Trade dress
* Unregistered trademark
* Wordmark

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Non-standard|

* Certification marks
* Chartered marks
* Collective trademarks
* Defensive trademarks
* Electronic registration marks
* Font trademark
* Ghost marks
* Geographical indication
* Protected designation of origin

Non-conventional|

* Colour trademarks
* Hologram trademarks
* Motion trademarks
* Scent trademarks
* Shape trademarks
* Sound trademarks

Related|

* Brand
* Emblem
* Logo

Bodies|

* WIPO
* International Trademark Association
* EUIPO
* USPTO
* ICANN
* Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
* CIPO

Symbols|

* Registered trademark symbol
* Service mark symbol
* Unregistered trademark symbol

Disputes|

* Budweiser
* Debian–Mozilla
* Stolichnaya
* Ugg boots
* Washington Redskins

Related|

* Trademark attorney
* Trademark examiner
* Trademark infringement
* Trademark share
* Trademark troll
* World Trademark Review

* Category:Trademark law
* Case laws
* WP:MOS/Trademarks

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Common punctuation and other typographical symbols

* space
* , comma
* : colon
* ; semicolon
* ‐ hyphen
* ’ ' apostrophe
* ′ ″ ‴ prime
* . full stop

* & ampersand
* @ at sign
* ^ caret
* / slash
* \ backslash
* … ellipsis
* * asterisk
* ⁂ asterism
* * * * dinkus

* - hyphen-minus
* ‒ – — dash
* ⹀ ⸗ double hyphen

* ? question mark
* ! exclamation mark
* ‽ interrobang
* ¡ ¿ inverted ! and ?
* ⸮ irony punctuation

* # number sign
* № numero sign
* º ª ordinal indicator
* % percent sign
* ‰ per mille
* ‱ basis point
* ° degree symbol
* ⌀ diameter sign

* + − plus and minus signs
* × multiplication sign
* ÷ division sign
* ~ tilde
* ± plus–minus sign
* ∓ minus-plus sign
* ^ caret

* _ underscore
* ⁀ tie
* | ¦ ‖ vertical bar
* • bullet
* · interpunct

* © copyright symbol
* © copyleft
* ℗ sound recording copyright
* ® registered trademark
* SM service mark symbol
* TM trademark symbol

* ‘ ’ “ ” ' ' " " quotation mark
* ‹ › « » guillemet
* ( ) [ ] { } ⟨ ⟩ bracket
* ” ditto mark

* † ‡ dagger
* ❧ fleuron (hedera, aldus)
* ☞ manicule
* ◊ ⌑ lozenge
* ¶ ⸿ pilcrow (paragraph mark)
* § section mark

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