Trademark Usage
Soltech Systems Ltd Trademark Usage Guidelines
Soltech Systems Ltd ("Soltech" or the "Company") trademarks and logos are of great importance in helping the Company compete in the highly competitive Internet field. The Company's legal rights in its marks can be defended only if they are used correctly at all times in all forms of media. Therefore, it is critical that all employees, customers, licensees, and third party users familiarize themselves with, and abide by, the following use guidelines.
TO WHOM AND
WHERE THE GUIDELINES APPLY
These use guidelines apply to all Soltech employees, licensees, vendors,
customers, and other third parties ("Users"). If you are a licensee,
your agreement may include specific guidelines governing use of trademarks and
logos. If so, please follow the guidelines specified in the agreement you
signed. If your agreement has no special guidelines governing use, or if you are
an unlicensed third party, please follow the guidelines specified herein. If you
have downloaded trademarks or logos from a Soltech website, you agree to be bound
in accordance with the usage guidelines set forth at that site.
In most
circumstances Soltech's prior written permission is required in order to use any
Soltech trademark or logo.
These guidelines are applicable worldwide.
GENERAL
TRADEMARK GUIDELINES
All trademarks and logos under which Soltech markets or promotes its products or
services are, and shall remain, the exclusive property of Soltech
Advertising for
Soltech or its products or services must not be in violation of any applicable
local, state, national or international law, municipal ordinance or
administrative agency regulation of any city, town, state or country.
Advertising for Soltech or its products or services must not be misleading in
any way.
Users may make NO representation or warranty regarding Soltech, its products or
services.
Users agree that all uses of Soltech's trademarks, logos or trade names will
inure to the benefit of Soltech.
Users may not register any Soltech trademarks, logos or trade names that are
identical to or confusingly similar with Soltech's trademarks, logos or trade
names in any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign.
Soltech's trademarks and logos may not be presented or used:
(a) in a manner
that suggests that editorial content has been authored by, or represents the
views or opinions of, Soltech or any Soltech representative, agent, personnel or
affiliate;
(b) in a manner that is misleading, defamatory, libelous, obscene, infringing or
otherwise objectionable;
(c) in connection with any material that infringes the trademark, copyright or
any other rights of any third party;
(d) as part of a name of a product or service of a company other than Soltech;
or
(e) in a manner that infringes, derogates, dilutes, or impairs the rights of
Soltech in such trademark or logo.
Soltech may modify these guidelines from time and time and Users will be bound to
comply with the material contained in the updated guidelines immediately upon
receipt of, or posting of the new guidelines
| USAGE GUIDELINES - WORD MARKS |
| • | Always set the mark apart from other text using bold, italics, or all capitals. | |
| • | Always use the mark as an adjective to modify a generic noun, never as a noun or verb. | |
| Use:
Soltech Systems Ltd® |
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| Not: Soltech® or Soltech Systems® | ||
| • | Always use the proper symbol to acknowledge ownership. | |
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following marks are trademarks and should be followed by the ™ symbol: |
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| • | Always use the following footnote to designate ownership of all marks used: | |
| [MARK] is a [registered] trademark [or service mark] of [Owner] in the United Kingdom [and other countries]. | ||
| e.g.: Soltech Systems Ltd® is a registered trademark of Soltech Systems Ltd in the United Kingdom and other countries. | ||
| • | Never modify a mark i.e. hyphenate, make a possessive of, pluralize, abbreviate. | |
| USAGE
GUIDELINES - STYLIZED or DESIGN MARKS ("LOGOS")
•Each of the usage guidelines for word marks applies. •In addition, the following guidelines for use of Logos also applies:•Soltech will provide authorized users with graphics samples for use in reproducing its Logos. These samples should not be altered in any way and should be used in a manner that ensures that each representation of a Logo is consistent, undistorted and clear. •A Logo should not be displayed in a size so small that any design feature of the mark is lost and should appear in exactly the same spatial relationships as set forth in the graphics samples provided by Soltech. A Logo should appear by itself, in a reasonable size, and should have a minimum amount of space on either side that equals its height.•Where graphics samples designate that a particular PMS ("Pantone Matching System") ink be used, users must ensure that their representations conform to these guidelines. |
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