Digital Process Innovations (Pty) Ltd ®, is a registered trademark of Digital Process Innovations (Pty) Ltd and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Introduction
Our trademarks and service marks ("our trademarks") are valuable assets that our needs to protect. We ask that you help us by properly using and crediting our trademarks in accordance with these guidelines. For information about proper use of our logos, logotypes, signatures, and design marks, please review the SThird Party Usage Guidelines for Our Logos.
Permissible Use
You may generally use our trademarks to refer to the associated our products or services. For instance, an authorized reseller can note in its advertisements that it is selling our application server(s). Similarly, our customer may issue a press release stating that it has implemented our software.
Relationship of Products or Services
You may indicate the relationship of your products or services to our products or services by using accurate, descriptive tag lines "for use with our applications," and "works with our software" in connection with your product or service name. Within text or body copy, such tag lines may appear in the same type as your product or service name. On product, packaging, advertising and other collateral where your product or service name is displayed apart from body copy, make sure that the tag line appears in significantly smaller type than your name. You should also distinguish the tag line from your mark by using a different font or color. However, our or the tag line should never appear in our color(s). This is important to avert any implication that your product or service is produced or endorsed by us.
Titles
Our permits use of its marks in single volume book titles (not magazines or periodicals) where such use is descriptive or referential. To avoid misleading the public as to our sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement, our mark must not appear more prominently than the rest of the title, and do not use our logos on the cover. In addition, we request that you include a disclaimer of association with our on the copyright page.
Open Source Software
Most open source licenses would not grant, and many would exclude, a license of trademark rights. Do not assume you can use the name of a source code base in the name of your distribution developed from that code base. Without a license or permission, you may not incorporate our trademarks in the name of your distribution or other products that incorporate open source elements. Truthful statements incorporating a trademark are generally allowed, but you should check the terms of the license for the original source code or any posted trademark guidelines for the project.
User Groups
Our generally permits use of its marks in groups name that include phrases such as "user group," "special interest group," "lobby," etc., that clarify the relationship between us and the group and do not create confusion about the source of products. This applies only to user groups that are not formally doing business as commercial entities. If you are administering a user group that includes an our trademark in its name, do not claim any trademark rights in the name or attempt to register the name or your logo with a trademark office, and do not register the name as a trade name or business name, or conduct any business under the name.
Prohibited Use
Do not use our trademarks or potentially confusing variations as all or part of your company, product or service names. If you wish to note the relationship of your products or services to our products or services, please use an appropriate tag line as detailed above.
Company, Product or Service Names
Do not use Digital Process Innovations trademarks or potentially confusing variations as all or part of your company, product or service names. If you wish to note the relationship of your products or services to Digital Process Innovations products or services, please use an appropriate tag line as detailed above. For example, "XYZ for Digital Process Innovations database" not "OraXYZ or XYZ Digital Process Innovations"
Logos
For more information regarding using our logos, please review the Third Party Usage Guidelines for Our Logos.
Trade Dress
You must not imitate our trade dress, type style or logos. For instance, do not copy our packaging for use with your product or display your product name in the distinctive logotype associated with our logo.
Domain Names
Do not use our trademarks or potentially confusing variations in your Internet domain name. This helps prevent Internet users from being confused as to whether you or our is the source of the web site.
Correct Use
Proper use of our trademarks reinforces their role as brands for our products and services, and helps prevent them from becoming generic names that can be used by anyone. By adhering to the following rules, you help protect our investment in our trademarks.
Use a Generic Term
Use a generic term in association with each our trademark the first time the mark appears in text, and as often as possible after that. You need not include generic names in headlines, package titles and documentation titles.
Use as Adjectives
Our trademarks are adjectives and should not be used as nouns, or in the possessive or plural form. For example, "our database's benefits.." not "our benefits..."
Avoid Variations
Do not vary our trademarks by changing their spelling or abbreviating them.
Trademark Symbols and Credit Lines
Proper trademark attribution through trademark symbols and credit lines helps makes the public aware of our trademarks, and helps prevent them from becoming generic terms. Credit lines also help clarify that they belong to our. Accordingly, our would appreciate you attributing ownership of our trademarks to our Corporation by using trademark symbols (™ or ®) and credit lines as detailed below.
Trademark Symbols
Use the ® symbol with the most prominent appearance of our mark on products, packaging, manuals, advertisements, promotional materials and web pages, and the first use of the mark in text or body copy. This includes situations where "our" is a part of a product or service name. You do not need to use trademark symbols with our other trademarks.
Example: XYZ Develops New Product for Digital Process Innovations® Database
XYZ Corporation, a member of the Digital Process Innovations® PartnerNetwork program, has developed the ABC software cartridge for use with the industry leading Digital Process Innovations database. The ABC software cartridge is one of numerous products XYZ has developed that complement leading Digital Process Innovations offerings."Digital Process Innovations" receives a trademark symbol in the headline because this is the most prominent appearance, and when it appears as part of the "Digital Process Innovations PartnerNetwork" name because this is the first appearance in text. While there is no trademark symbol after "Digital Process Innovations" when it appears in front of the term "products" and "offerings" since we already used a symbol the first time that the term "Digital Process Innovations" appeared in body copy. It is always acceptable to continue using the ® after "Digital Process Innovations" throughout the document.
Credit Line
All products, packaging, manuals, advertisements, promotional materials and web pages bearing our trademarks should include the following trademark credit line.
"our, is a registered trademark of our and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners."
The credit line may appear anywhere on the collateral, but typically is displayed on a copyright page, the back of a package or at the end of a document or web page.
"Our" As a Trade Name
Trade names are the actual business names of companies. Trademarks and trade names are not the same, even though many companies use their trade names as trademarks. If you are using "our" as a substitute for our Corporation, you are using it as a trade name. Because they are nouns, trade names can be used in the possessive and do not require a generic term or a trademark symbol. Thus, you should not use a ® after "our" when it appears as part of the full corporate name or as a trade name.
Examples
• Corporate Name: This software was developed by our Corporation.
• Trade Name: This software was developed by our.
• Trade Name: our latest software developments are outstanding.
• Trademark: our® database leads the industry.