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Pitney
Bowes MapInfo Corporation's ("MapInfo") trademarks, logos and service
marks ("MapInfo Trademarks") are valuable assets and we use our best
efforts to protect them. Please respect our interests by using and
crediting MapInfo Trademarks according to these guidelines. If we have
authorized you to use MapInfo's logos and design marks, please review Pitney Bowes MapInfo Signature Use Guidelines . - PERMITTED USE
- Product Reference
You may use MapInfo Trademarks to refer to the associated MapInfo
products or services. For example, a MapInfo authorized reseller or
distributor may advertise that it sells "MapInfo Professional®
software." You may also make fair use of MapInfo Trademarks to make
accurate factual statements about MapInfo products or services
identified by those marks. - Relationship of Products or Services
You may use MapInfo Trademarks when you accurately indicate that your
products or services are compatible with, designed for use with, or
were designed using MapInfo products. For example, "for use with
MapInfo Professional® software" and "works with MapInfo Professional®
software" are permissible uses of our Trademarks. In regular body text,
these types of phrases may appear in the same type font as your regular
product or service name. However, in advertising, product packaging and
other collateral that displays your product or service name outside the
body text or copy, the phrase should appear in text that is
significantly smaller than the name of your product or service. For
example: ABC Resource Locator (for MapInfo Professional® software) This avoids any suggestion that MapInfo produces or endorses your product or service. - PROHIBITED USE
- Product or Service Names
You may not use MapInfo Trademarks to name your products or services.
To indicate a relationship or compatibility between MapInfo's products
or services and your products or services, use a tag line such as the
one shown above in the section titled "Relationship of Products or
Services." For example: | CORRECT: | ABC Resource Locator (for MapInfo Professional® software) | | | INCORRECT: | ABC Resource Locator MapInfo | - Logos
MapInfo limits the use of its logos to certain authorized companies.
For example, MapInfo's authorized resellers may use them to identify
and advertise MapInfo products. Media organizations may use them to
accurately identify MapInfo or its products. Review Pitney Bowes MapInfo's Signature Use Guidelines and download Pitney Bowes MapInfo logos. - Trade Dress
Imitating the look of MapInfo's trade dress or logos or type style
could infringe on MapInfo's trademark rights. For example, you should
not copy MapInfo packaging for use with your products or services. - Domain Names
You may not use MapInfo's Trademarks or confusing variations of them as
all or part of an Internet domain name. This could confuse Internet
visitors about whether the Internet site was yours or ours. You also
may not use our Trademarks or confusing variations of them as meta tags
or meta names designed to draw internet traffic to your web site. This
could attract Internet users to your site when they are actually trying
to reach ours. - CORRECT USE
Improper use of MapInfo's Trademarks could diminish their value as
trademarks by causing them to become generic terms available for use by
anyone. Therefore, when you use our marks, please follow these general
guidelines: - Use
as adjectives with generic terms. MapInfo's Trademarks should be used
as adjectives to modify generic words, and not as nouns or verbs. For
example:
| CORRECT: | The MapMarker® geocoding engine helps . . . | | INCORRECT: | MapMarker® is a geocoding engine that . . . | - Do not use MapInfo Trademarks in plural or possessive form. For example:
| CORRECT: | The advantages of the miAware® platform include . . . | | INCORRECT: | miAware's® advantages include . . . | - Do not use variations of MapInfo's Trademarks. For example:
| CORRECT: | MapInfo Professional® software | | INCORRECT: | MIPro | - Use
proper trademark notices or credits. Crediting MapInfo as the owner of
our trademarks and using the appropriate symbols in combination with
our trademarks helps protect our trademarks and make people aware of
them. Please use our Trademarks with the proper symbols or tag lines
described below in section IV.
- Make
MapInfo's Trademarks look distinctive. When you use MapInfo Trademarks,
you should use some means of distinguishing them. For example, you may
type them in ALL CAPS or in quotes with "Initial Caps." You may also
distinguish them with bold or italic type face or a different color
type.
- Trademarks
vs. Trade Names. When you use "MapInfo" or "Pitney Bowes MapInfo" to
identify the company known as MapInfo Corporation rather than to
identify a specific product or service, you are using the term as a
trade name, not as a trademark. Therefore, when you use "MapInfo"
either alone or as part of "MapInfo Corporation" to identify our
company, you may use it as a noun and you should not place the ®
trademark symbol next to it.
- SYMBOLS AND TAG LINES
- Symbols
Generally, you should identify our marks as registered trademarks
(using the R-in-a-circle ®) or as unregistered trademarks (using the
superscript TM) as appropriate. Check the Pitney Bowes MapInfo Trademark List to see how each mark should appear.
On products, packaging, publications, web pages, advertising, manuals
and promotional materials, use the appropriate symbol next to the most
prominent use of a trademark (e.g., in the largest text in an
advertisement) and, if the materials contain body text, next to its
first appearance in the body text of the document. For example: (headline) TARGETPRO® DEMOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE WINS PRAISE (body text) Experts
attending a recent industry conference gave high marks to Pitney Bowes
MapInfo Corporation's TargetPro® demographic software. - Trademark Lines.
On all products, packaging, publications, web pages, advertising,
manuals and promotional materials that display MapInfo Trademarks, you
should note that those Trademarks belong to MapInfo. For example: MapInfo is a registered trademark and [insert all other terms that you have used and that are listed on the Pitney Bowes MapInfo Trademarks List [is a/are] trademark[s] or registered trademark[s] of MapInfo Corporation, Troy, New York. These
tag lines may be placed at the bottom or on the back of the materials,
on a copyright page or in any other appropriate place where other
credits are displayed. Remember that using tag lines is not a
substitute for the proper use of MapInfo Trademarks. Questions? A list of MapInfo's Trademarks are available here.
If you have specific questions or need additional information or
clarification on the proper uses of MapInfo Trademarks and logos, or if
you have information concerning the misuse of our Trademarks, you may
contact us by regular mail at: MapInfo Corporation One Global View Troy, New York 12180 Attn: Contracts Department or by email at:
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