trade-mark

trade-mark (plural trade-marks)

1. Alternative form of trademark.
   • 1868 August, James D[avenport] Whelpley, “Ideal Property”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 September 2025:

     The special marks and devices of spool-cotton are trade-marks clearly. But the right to use a firm name in a given business is both. Consequently the decisions of the courts have frequently spoken of incidents of good-will as incidents of trade-marks, and vice versa.

   • 1949 October 28, “World Group Acts on Trade-Marks […]”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 September 2025:

     Seven basic recommendations for revision of international protection of trade-marks were made public yesterday by the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. The recommendations are contained in a report entitled "Increasing International Trade With World-Wide Protection of Trade-Marks," prepared by the council's committee on international protection of industrial property.

   • 1959 October 28, “Be careful how you use that word!”, in The Bend Bulletin, 56th year, number 275, Bend, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     The word trampoline, The Bulletin has been notified, is patented as a trade-mark. If we use the name, we are advised, we must identify it as a trade-mark of a certain company that makes rebound tumbling equipment.

trade-mark (third-person singular simple present trade-marks, present participle trade-marking, simple past and past participle trade-marked)

1. Alternative form of trademark.
   • 1938 March 13, “A New Plane for High Level Flight […]”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 September 2025:

     The manufacturer has trade-marked the new type the "Stratoliner." […] Trade-marked the “Stratoliner,” this new Boeing plane will carry thirty-three passengers in a cabin sealed and supercharged for maintaining sea-level atmospheric conditions as high as 20,000 feet above the earth.

   • 1959 June 28, “Around the Town”, in The Cedar Rapids Gazette, city final edition, volume 77, number 170, Cedar Rapids, Ia., →OCLC, page 2˙˙˙, column 1:

     Because the Nissen firm has trade-marked Trampoline, and Trampolining, there’s no such common noun as trampoline or trampolining.

   • 2011 December 25, Robert Booth, “English sparkling wine comes of age with French boost”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2016:

     Ridgeview has trade-marked the word "merret" to describe its English sparkling wine.

trade-mark (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of trademark.
   • 1986 June 29, Norman Kempster, “Reporter’s Notebook: Shultz Relives Wartime Island Landing”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[5], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2020:

     Many of the Americans’ garments displayed the telltale folds of a shirt just out of the store. Only press spokesman Bernard Kalb held out, sticking to suits and his trade-mark wide orange tie.

   • 2000 September 30, Chris Horrie, “TV according to Greg [Dyke]”, in The Observer‎^[6], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 May 2014:

     In 1971, deeply committed to Labour's left wing, Dyke decided that newspaper journalism was too 'glib' and went to York University to take stock and study politics (by now he had his trade-mark beard and long hair; his specialist subject was Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution).

   • 2009 March 29, Rob Hughes, “Small Is Beautiful Again for Maradona’s Argentina”, in The New York Times‎^[7], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 April 2009:

     [Shunsuke] Nakamura struck his 23rd goal for Japan with one of his trade-mark free kicks to beat visiting Bahrain, 1-0, in Saitama.