How to Use trademark in a Sentence
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Your trademark style comes through in the song’s main riff.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
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Kia has also already filed a trademark for the K3 name in the U.S.
—Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2023
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Last month, Taco John's agreed to abandon its trademark for the phrase.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2023
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So does the hair and makeup team, who’ve shaved his trademark widow’s peak and let the gray show through in his beard.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
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Rudolph says he’s owed for any proceeds derived from the trademark.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
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To create the look of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the big screen, his trademark hat had to be just right.
—Lisa Richwine, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
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Don't forget to snap a photo of your beef frank or corn dog below the trademark signage.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
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But even when a lead vocal came up slightly short, the group’s trademark harmonies kept the music aloft.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
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Now the under-fire brand is hoping its trademark humor can win back fans who have turned their backs on it.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
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The application to declare the trademark invalid was filed in 2018.
—Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
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The group will, however, hold on to the trademark, rather than giving it up completely.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
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The fight began when the band’s original bassist Jim Kale obtained the trademark to the Guess Who name in 1986 as the band hadn’t secured the trademark before then.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
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The pair may look similar to the untrained eye, but the latter 2+2 coupé has a longer wheelbase, a smoother shape and, its trademark, and upturned Kamm tail.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
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Certain guardrails still apply under trademark law—enough at least to raise the risk of a costly lawsuit.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
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That decision was overturned on appeal in 2022, awarding the artist the trademark.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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Still, the Mini's trademark go-kart handling impressed us.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2023
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For nearly 125 years, the green hue has been the trademark of British race cars, including Aston Martin.
—Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
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His antitrust lawyer father took on Microsoft in a major trademark case in the mid-aughts.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
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The voice actors do their best to drag things along, especially when Spider-Man lets off a few of his trademark quips.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
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Daft-sounding ideas and sayings are O’Leary’s trademark.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
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Its proportions and stance are both trademark Lamborghini—low, wedgy, and with visual mass gathered to the back of the car.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2023
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While the district court found there to be both trademark infringement and dilution.
—Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
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Jack Daniel's responded to the filing by claiming that the toy does infringe upon its trademark and trade dress.
—Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
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Nolley appeared to be well after the game in his trademark red Uggs but got on the bus back to the airport disappointed.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 28 Jan. 2023
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It’s finished in a gleaming coat of Ferrari’s trademark Rosso Corsa and has a white racing gumball adorned with the number 81.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
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The news of Isley's death comes amid a legal battle between him and his younger brother, Ronald, over the Isley Brothers trademark.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
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One of Aduba’s signature trademarks, outside of her distinctive voice, is the gap in her smile.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
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Swift paired her game day outfit with a navy blue skirt with pleats, Reformation loafers and her trademark red lipstick.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
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Shimizu breathes blues, and jazz, into the song, punctuated with her trademark dynamite runs and big, showy high notes.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
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In just under three years’ time, however, fans will see Nike’s trademark ticks, not the three stripes of Adidas, on the shirts of Germany’s national teams.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
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In the case at hand, Booking.com won the right to trademark its name.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 2 July 2020
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That’s right: the smell of Play-Doh is now trademarked.
—Devon Maloney, The Verge, 18 May 2018
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The game didn’t get picked up, but the name stuck with Martin (who trademarked it).
—Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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Is the Green Ticker (a term trademarked by Elkay) helping make the sale?
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
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Probably not, which is why the school wants to trademark the word...
—Catherine Kim, Vox, 15 Aug. 2019
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Some of the team’s own fans were upset by the attempt to trademark their hometown’s name.
—Hasit Shah, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
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Kajun Kettle Foods does not share its recipe and the name is trademarked.
—Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
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Which celebrity should try to trademark what word next?
—The Week Staff, The Week, 15 Apr. 2022
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Haus Beauty—for the longest time, and filed to trademark the name in February 2018.
—Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2019
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Clermont is known as the Choice of Champions, with the phrase and a logo trademarked as such.
—Michael Candelaria, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
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The nation can afford to wait a few months to hear, for instance, whether Booking.com can trademark its name.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
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But Seaver, now 74, never trademarked the name, leaving the door open for Brady to swoop in and claim it all to himself.
—Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
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In 2018 alone, The Weeknd was forced to fight in court for the right to trademark the name of his Grammy-winning album, Starboy.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2019
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An effort to trademark the name Cleveland Guardians was made in 2020.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 26 July 2021
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While Carey calls herself the Queen of Christmas, her bid to trademark that title failed.
—David Bauder, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
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The hip-hop star also addressed his attempt to trademark his son's name.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 16 June 2018
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So Sachs invested $1,200 of her own money to launch the platform and trademark the name.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
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Later, the company will trademark stripes running down the side of jackets, and more.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
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The channel was originally called Sci Fi, which proved to be hard to trademark.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
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Each painting depicts one of six Jayhawk logos over the years and are numbered with the year they were trademarked.
—Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
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The adhesive company trademarked the term two decades ago, and the cannabis company agreed to change the names of its weed strains.
—Ally Marotti, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
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Tesla has trademarked the name Cyberquad for use on ATVs.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
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Tomporos says records show someone else already tried to trademark that, and failed.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022
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Its lawyers dropped a house on 7 Locks Brewing’s effort to trademark the name of their signature beer.
—Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2021
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In 2014, a lower EU court ruled in favor of the company's right to trademark the puzzle, but two years later the top court ruled against it.
—Fox News, 24 Oct. 2019
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The nonprofit alleges that allowing Booking.com to trademark its name will lead to chaos.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2020
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Mertz even went so far as to trademark his name (smart move) and create a logo that will appear on apparel to be sold.
—Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
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The school has already trademarked the names of former coaches Woody Hayes and Urban Meyer.
—Scooby Axson, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
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This will be the third time the pop-star has applied to trademark his middle name after having abandoned the trademark process twice before.
—Amira Rasool, Teen Vogue, 26 Feb. 2018
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It’s what spurred Gould to trademark the image and launch a merchandise line featuring the logo around 2000.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
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