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Why, what are the Yahoos going to do if I don't follow their "style guide"? Threaten me with their little ®? Not anymore, they won't.
No they won't threaten you. You'll just look, to the small number of people who are aware of the correct style, like you don't know what you're doing.
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TM doesn't mean anything - a trademark is either registered (and therefore enforceable) or it isn't. You can slap it on pretty much anything you want, it doesn't mean that whatever it is attached to will become a registered trademark, or even that the owner has filed for registration.
Why do people use it then? Specifically, why is it used in the original image? They must think it does something? Or are people just following procedures?
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TM doesn't mean anything - a trademark is either registered (and therefore enforceable) or it isn't. You can slap it on pretty much anything you want, it doesn't mean that whatever it is attached to will become a registered trademark, or even that the owner has filed for registration.
I can't speak for the USA or anywhere else but in Canada TM means something. Common law trademarks do come with some rights to protect your brand, Registered trademarks come with more. It's been a long time since my IP Law class but I beleive TM allows protection against business in the same industry from using your trademark in such a way that it could be reasonably confused for yours.
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you never "photoshop" a picture, right? -- I have to imagine there is an endless struggle between marketing and legal on these types of things
http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#section-4
Trademarks are not verbs.
Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.