On 8/30/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As far as I recall, there is no legal requirement
to use either
symbol. (r) and ™ are used by trademark holders to inform you that
they consider the terms trademarks. It is not commonplace to use
those symbols when you are NOT claiming trademark status on the terms
yourself.
Yes, it's up to the person who owns the trademark to spray them around
everywhere. If we do it, we're just being chumps.
Speaking of which, we SHOULD do it with Wikipedia(R)(TM).
[1] It's a registered trademark of the WMF, isn't it?
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