The Circles Circular icons refer to dry cleaning, and are extremely simple: A circle by itself means you can dry clean the item, a circle with a cross through it means you can’t.

DRY CLEANING SYMBOLS A crossed-out circle means that you should not dry-clean the garment. Click on the link for more laundry care and washing tips to keep your clothes clean and smelling fresh.

Symbols on Washing Machine Detergent Drawers I= pre wash. II= main wash. Flower symbol= fabric softener.

Dry-Cleaning symbol

If the garment is machine washable, then you’ll either see dots or numbers inside the bucket symbol, representing the recommended maximum temperature: one dot means 30 °C (meaning that you have to wash your clothing in cold water), two dots 40 °C (warm water), and four dots 60 °C.

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U+24DF ⓟ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER P. The sound recording copyright symbol or phonogram symbol, represented by the graphic symbol ℗, is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord (LPs, audiotapes, cassette tapes, compact discs, etc.).

The symbol does not have to be used every time the mark is used. Instead, use the symbol in the first instance the mark is used, in the most prominent use of the mark, or both. Repeated use of trademark symbols can become cluttered.

In many cases, a business will want to start the trademark application as soon as their LLC or corporation paperwork is filed. By filing for a trademark prior to launch, you can be sure that your name is protected once you begin commercial sales. However, there may be an even stronger reason to apply early.

Trademarks offer far more protection than copyrights, but copyrights are extremely important for the protection of logos. Read on to explore in detail the difference between the two, so that you can better understand their importance and the impact they can have on your company.

No. Names are not protected by copyright law. Some names may be protected under trademark law. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, [email protected] or see Circular 33 “Copyright Protection Not Available for Names, Titles, or Short Phrases”.

You can not register a trademark for free. However, you can establish something known as a “common law trademark” for free, simply by opening for business. The benefit of relying on common law trademark rights is that it’s free, and you don’t need to do any specific work filling out forms, etc.

Trade secrets are intellectual property (IP) rights on confidential information which may be sold or licensed. In general, to qualify as a trade secret, the information must be: commercially valuable because it is secret, be known only to a limited group of persons, and.

Popular examples of trade secrets include the recipe for Coca-Cola and the formula for WD-40. Trade secrets may also include items that a person or company has not chosen to patent yet, such as a new plant hybrid or mechanical invention.

Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.

The five major types of intellectual property are:

• Copyrights.
• Trademarks.
• Patents.
• Trade Dress.
• Trade Secrets.

Intellectual property theft involves robbing people or companies of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—known as “intellectual property”—which can include everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies, music, and software.

Intellectual Property (IP) Defined The three main areas of intellectual property law that innovators use to protect their ideas are Trademarks, Patents, and Copyrights.

To get intellectual property rights, you typically must register your work with the appropriate federal government agency. After registration, you have the right to sue anyone who uses your work without permission in federal court.

Intellectual property rights include patents, copyright, industrial design rights, trademarks, plant variety rights, trade dress, geographical indications, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.

IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create.