# trademarked

Pronunciation: US say "TRAYD-markt" /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹkt/; say "TRAYD-mahkt" UK /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːkt/, AUS /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːkt/

## Adjective

1. Registered with an authority as a trademark, giving legal protection to a brand name, logo, or symbol.
   - Simple: Protected by law as an official brand name or symbol that only one company can use.
   - _The brand name is trademarked, which prevents competitors from selling products under the same label._
   - _Counterfeiters were sued for copying the trademarked design without permission._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of trademark. — simple past and past participle of trademark
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of trademark. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The startup trademarked its brand name shortly after launching._
   - _The phrase was trademarked by the studio decades ago._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/trademarked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).