HTrademark

hTrademark is a microformat providing a supplement to the traditional ® or ™ signs associated to a pending or registered trademark on paper or a webpage.

It enables add-values such as:

• Index and search services of trademarks published on the web
• Direct access to Industrial Property Offices' online Register(s) thanks to standard URIs, web services or the trademark bus
• Automatic check of the status of the trademark (pending, rejected, registered, expired, canceled...)

List of Attributes

Examples

Work Mark

Consider the HTML showing a word mark:

 Wikipedia®
 

With hTrademark microformat markup, that becomes:

• Minimum tagging indicating just a trademark

 <span class="htrademark">Wikipedia®</span>
 

OR

 <span class="htrademark">
   <abbr class="htrademark-text">Wikipedia®</abbr>
 </span>
 

• Tagging with list of Application Identifiers following WIPO Standard ST.13.

 <span class="htrademark">
   <abbr class="htrademark-text">Wikipedia®</abbr>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="WO500000000839132"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="WO500000000907474"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="FR500000003418309"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="US500000078483359"/>
 </span>
 

Figurative Mark (Logo)

Consider the HTML showing a figurative mark:

  <img src="http://www.google.es/intl/en_com/images/logo_plain.png" alt="Google Logo"/>
 

With hTrademark microformat markup, that becomes:

• Minimum tagging indicating just a trademark

 <div class="htrademark">
   <img class="htrademark-image" src="http://www.google.es/intl/en_com/images/logo_plain.png" alt="Google Logo"/>
 </div>
 

• Tagging with list of Application Identifiers following WIPO Standard ST.13.

 <div class="htrademark">
   <img class="htrademark-image" src="http://www.google.es/intl/en_com/images/logo_plain.png" alt="Google Logo"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="WO500000000881006"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="EM500000000881006"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="BX500000001921135"/>
   <abbr class="htrademark-id" title="AU500000001111537"/>
 </div>
 

See Also

• Microformat
• TM-XML

References

• "Trademark XML Working Group".
• "TrademarkBus.net".

External links

• http://trademarkbus.net Trademark Bus providing free services in particular the rewrite of standard URLs to target non-standard ones.
• http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/part_03_standards.html List of WIPO Standards
• http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-13-01.pdf WIPO ST.13 Numbering of Applications for Industrial Property Rights

Standard URI Examples through the Trademark Bus

• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/WO500000000907474 Wikipedia in WIPO Register, Classes 9,35,38,41
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/WO500000000839132 Wikipedia in WIPO Register, Class 41

• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (english by default)
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/en/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (in english)
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/fr/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (in french)
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/es/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (in spanish)
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/de/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (in german)
• http://trademarkbus.net/trademark/it/EM500000000881006 Google, OHIM Register (in italian)