Trademark symbols in software?

["Brigitte Johnston" <bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com>]

Hi everyone -
 
My company sells a software program. Many pages/windows in this program contain acronyms for certain "tools" that my company has developed, for example, BRIEF.  Each and every instance of these acronyms is followed by a trademark (TM) symbol (even if the acronym appears more than once on a page).  My question is, is this necessary?  This is our software, so must we include that trademark symbol for these acronyms?  Or, should there perhaps be a note/message somewhere near or on the login page that covers it?  The symbols really seem to clutter up otherwise nicely-designed and organized pages.
 
Thanks!
 
B. Johnston
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