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GENERAL TRADEMARK GUIDELINES

You may use Adobe trademarks (but not logos or taglines) to identify Adobe
products, services, and programs on packaging, promotional, and advertising
materials, provided you meet the following guidelines:

 1.  You may not include any Adobe trademark in your company name, product or
     service name, or domain name.
     
 2.  You may not include any Adobe trademark in your social media account name,
     page(s) or community, without written authorization from Adobe, except to
     describe the purpose by referring to the Adobe product (“Forum for
     Photoshop Users,” for example).
     
 3.  You may not include any Adobe logo or product icon design, whole or in
     part, in your company logo, your product logo, your app launch tile image,
     in your software product or service or in your social media account,
     page(s) or community images without a prior written license from Adobe.
     
 4.  You should use an appropriate generic term after an Adobe trademark the
     first time it appears in a publication and as often as possible after
     that. See examples of appropriate generic terms for use with Adobe
     trademarks
     
 5.  Your product name may not be confusingly similar to any Adobe trademark.
     
 6.  You may not use any Adobe trademark on or in connection with any obscene or
     pornographic materials, and your use of any Adobe trademark may not be
     disparaging, defamatory, or libelous to Adobe, any of its products, or any
     person or entity.
     
 7.  You may not use Adobe trademarks in any manner that directly or indirectly
     expresses or implies Adobe sponsorship, affiliation, certification,
     approval, or endorsement in relation to your product or service or in such
     a manner that it appears that Adobe is legally associated with your
     company.
     
 8.  You may not use any Adobe trademark, including web logos or any other Adobe
     logo trademark, on or in connection with a website that provides download
     links for a fee (whether directly or indirectly via a subscription model or
     the like) for any Adobe product or service, especially for freeware, such
     as Adobe® Reader® software or an Adobe web player product, without the
     express written permission of Adobe.
     
 9.  An Adobe trademark may not be the most prominent visual element on
     packaging, a download page, app store marketing, or other marketing
     materials for your product or service. Your company name or logo, your
     product or service name, and your graphic identity should be significantly
     larger than any Adobe trademark.
     
 10. If you refer to an Adobe product, you should use the full name of the
     product in the first and most prominent reference (Adobe Acrobat software,
     for example). Refer to the Adobe trademark database for general
     distribution.
     
 11. You may not shorten, abbreviate, or modify any Adobe trademark. Always
     spell out and capitalize Adobe’s trademarks exactly as they appear in
     the Adobe trademark database for general distribution.
     
 12. You should include the following trademark attribution statement: “[List of
     marks used, with ‘Adobe’ first, if used, followed by other Adobe marks
     used, in alphabetical order] are either registered trademarks or trademarks
     of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.”
 13. You should follow the basic rules for proper trademark use. Adobe’s
     Photoshop trademark is used in the following examples:
     

     
     Trademarks are not verbs.
     Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
     Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
     
     Trademarks are not nouns.
     Correct: The image pokes fun at the Senator
     Incorrect: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
     
     Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
     Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
     Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
     Incorrect: The image was Photoshopped.
     Incorrect: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
     
     Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
     Correct: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a
     hobby see their work as an art form.
     Incorrect: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
     Incorrect: My hobby is photoshopping.
     
     Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
     Correct: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
     Incorrect: Photoshop’s new features are impressive.
     
     Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic
     terms they describe.
     Correct: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
     Incorrect: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
     
     Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
     Correct: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
     Incorrect: Take a look at the new features in PS.
     
     The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
     Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe
     in the United States and/or other countries.
     
     

 14. Your use of Adobe trademarks must otherwise comply with the guidelines for
     third parties who use Adobe’s trademarks.
     

Third-party developers of plug-ins and extensions for Adobe products may need to
comply with additional guidelines. All other requests require written
permission. If other permission is required, complete the online form. Allow two
weeks for your request to be processed.

 


LIST OF ADOBE TRADEMARKS

For your reference, here is a list of Adobe trademarks

 


LOGOS

Unless you are licensed by Adobe under a specific licensing program agreement or
equivalent authorization, use of Adobe logos, such as the Adobe corporate logo
or an Adobe product logo, is not allowed. You may qualify for use of certain
logos under the programs offered through Partnering with Adobe. If you are not
eligible for any of these logo programs, you may be eligible to use one of
Adobe's web logos instead. See linking to Adobe's website. Or you may choose to
simply refer to an Adobe product as described in the general trademark
guidelines.

 


USE OF ADOBE TRADEMARKS IN TITLES OF PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS

Adobe trademarks may be used in the titles of publications, conferences and
seminars that provide in-depth training on Adobe products or technology beyond
that available from Adobe product tutorials, training and reference material.
Publishers of such publications and hosts of such conferences or seminars do not
need to obtain further permission from Adobe if the use of Adobe trademarks
complies with all of the following requirements:

 1. The subject of the publication, conference or seminar should be the specific
    Adobe product, service or technology to which the title refers.
 2. The Adobe trademarks may not appear larger or more prominent than the rest
    of the full publication, conference or seminar title, and your name or logo
    should be displayed more prominently on the cover of the publication and in
    all materials related to the conference or seminar.
    
 3. The Adobe trademarks may not be used in the stylized form used by Adobe, and
    no Adobe logos, taglines, or Adobe product imagery may be used on your
    publication’s cover or your publication, conference or seminar’s website,
    advertising, or promotional material, without express written permission
    from Adobe.
    
 4. You may not use an Adobe trademark in the domain name of your publication,
    conference or seminar website without a written license or equivalent
    authorization from Adobe.
    
 5. You may not shorten or abbreviate any of Adobe’s trademarks. Always spell
    and capitalize Adobe’s trademarks exactly as they appear in the Adobe
    trademark database for general distribution.
    
 6. You must include the following trademark attribution statement: "[List of
    marks used, with 'Adobe' first, if used, followed by other Adobe marks used,
    in alphabetical order] are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
    Adobe in the United States and/or other countries."
    
 7. You must include a conspicuous disclaimer, preferably on the front or back
    cover of your publication, but at a minimum, it must appear on the copyright
    page of the publication, or on the website of your conference or seminar,
     and state in all capital letters: THIS PRODUCT [or TITLE OF PUBLICATION,
    CONFERENCE or SEMINAR] IS NOT AUTHORIZED, ENDORSED OR SPONSORED BY ADOBE,
    PUBLISHER OF [INSERT ADOBE PRODUCT NAME(S)].
    
 8. You must otherwise comply with the guidelines for third parties who use
    Adobe's trademarks; and
    
 9. There should be nothing else in the use of Adobe trademarks or in the
    circumstances that would lead consumers to believe there is an association
    with, or endorsement by, Adobe that does not exist, and the Adobe trademarks
    should be used only to refer to the Adobe products that are the subject of
    the publication, conference or seminar.

 


GUIDELINES FOR THIRD-PARTY DEVELOPERS OF ADOBE PLUG-INS AND EXTENSIONS

If you are a developer of a plug-in or extension for an Adobe product, you may
use Adobe trademarks in a referential manner on packaging, websites,
promotional, and advertising materials to give notice that your product is
compatible with the referenced Adobe product or technology, provided you meet
the following guidelines:

 1. You may not incorporate or include any Adobe trademark in your company name,
    trade name, product name, domain name, or name of your service.
 2. You may not include any Adobe trademark or Adobe logo, product icon design,
    or product imagery, in whole or in part, in your company logo, your product
    logo, your app launch icon or launcher tile image or otherwise in your
    software product or service without a prior written license or equivalent
    authorization from Adobe.
 3. Your product or service name may not be confusingly similar to any Adobe
    trademark.
 4. If you state that your product is compatible with an Adobe product, the
    product must in fact be compatible with that Adobe product and otherwise
    work with that Adobe product as intended and described in the documentation
    of your product.
 5. Any notice that your product is compatible with an Adobe product or
    technology must be made in a referential manner such as “for use with,”
    “for,” or “compatible with.” Example: “[Your product name] plug-in for Adobe
    Photoshop®” or “ABC extension for Adobe Dreamweaver®.”
 6. You must comply with the general trademark guidelines and the guidelines for
    third parties who use Adobe’s trademarks.

 


PROPER USE OF THE PHOTOSHOP TRADEMARK


Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and the Photoshop
trademark is one of Adobe’s most valuable trademarks. By following these
guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.
 

You must never use the Photoshop trademark as a common verb (‘to photoshop an
image,” as an example of such incorrect use) or as a noun. Since Photoshop is a
trademark, you should always use it as an adjective only to describe the Adobe
products associated with the Photoshop brand.  And you should always use the
Photoshop trademark with an initial capital letter “P.” Please see the examples
of the proper use of the Photoshop trademark in the “General trademark
guidelines ” section above.

 

For more information on the proper use of Adobe’s trademarks, refer to
the general trademark guidelines.

 


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