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To Tammy Williams, who said her company uses a generic trademark notice:
This is not adequate. If you use a product or service name in your documents,
you must find out the proper statement that the company who owns
that product or service name wants used. In particular, you must state
the product or service name correctly, including capitalization, and you
must state the company name correctly. Even more importantly, you must know
whether the trademark is registered or not and state that. Some companies
have one person whose job is devoted to making sure that everything that goes
out is absolutely correct and that their company's products names are
mentioned everywhere else correctly. I have worked for place where we have
received notices asking for correction of minute details.
If you have a corporate trademark attorney, I would pass that statement
by him or her for approval.
