MapInfo's trademarks and service marks ("MapInfo trademarks") are valuable assets and we use our best efforts to protect them. Please respect our interests by using and crediting MapInfo trademarks according to these guidelines. If we have authorized you to use MapInfo's logos and design marks, please review MapInfo's Logo Guidelines .

1. PERMITTED USE
   
   
   1. Product Reference
      You may use MapInfo word marks to refer to the associated MapInfo products or services. For example, a MapInfo authorized reseller or distributor may advertise that it sells "MapInfo Professional® software." You may also make fair use of MapInfo word marks to make accurate factual statements about MapInfo products or services identified by those marks.
      
      
   2. Relationship of Products or Services
      You may use MapInfo trademarks when you accurately indicate that your products or services are compatible with, designed for use with, or were designed using MapInfo products. For example, "for use with MapInfo Professional® software" and "works with MapInfo Professional® software" are permissible uses of our trademarks. In regular body text, these types of phrases may appear in the same type font as your regular product or service name. However, in advertising, product packaging and other collateral that displays your product or service name outside the body text or copy, the phrase should appear in text that is significantly smaller than the name of your product or service. For example:
      
      
      ABC Resource Locator
      (for MapInfo Professional® software)
      
      This avoids any suggestion that MapInfo produces or endorses your product or service.
   
   
   
2. PROHIBITED USE
   
   
   1. Product or Service Names
      You may not use MapInfo trademarks to name your products or services. To indicate a relationship or compatibility between MapInfo's products or services and your products or services, use a tag line such as the one shown above in the section titled "Relationship of Products or Services." For example:
      
      

      CORRECT:	ABC Resource Locator (for MapInfo Professional® software)
      INCORRECT:	ABC Resource Locator MapInfo

      
      
   2. Logos
      MapInfo limits the use of its logos to certain authorized companies. For example, MapInfo's authorized resellers may use them to identify and advertise MapInfo products. Media organizations may use them to accurately identify MapInfo or its products.Click here to review MapInfo's Logo Guidelines and download MapInfo logos.
      
      
   3. Trade Dress
      Imitating the look of MapInfo's trade dress or logos or type style could infringe on MapInfo's trademark rights. For example, you should not copy MapInfo packaging for use with your products or services.
      
      
   4. Domain Names
      You may not use MapInfo's trademarks or confusing variations of them as all or part of an Internet domain name. This could confuse Internet visitors about whether the Internet site was yours or ours. You also may not use our trademarks or confusing variations of them as meta tags or meta names designed to draw internet traffic to your web site. This could attract Internet users to your site when they are actually trying to reach ours.
      
      
   
   
   
3. CORRECT USE
   
   Improper use of MapInfo's trademarks could diminish their value as trademarks by causing them to become generic terms available for use by anyone. Therefore, when you use our marks, please follow these general guidelines:
   
   
   1. Use as adjectives with generic terms. MapInfo's trademarks should be used as adjectives to modify generic words, and not as nouns or verbs. For example:
      
      

      CORRECT:	The MapMarker® geocoding engine helps . . .
      INCORRECT:	MapMarker® is a geocoding engine that . . .

      
      
   2. Do not use MapInfo trademarks in plural or possessive form. For example:
      
      

      CORRECT:	The advantages of the miAware® platform include . . .
      INCORRECT:	miAware's® advantages include . . .

      
      
   3. Do not use variations of MapInfo's trademarks. For example:
      
      

      CORRECT:	MapInfo Professional® software
      INCORRECT:	MIPro

      
      
   4. Use proper trademark notices or credits. Crediting MapInfo as the owner of our trademarks and using the appropriate symbols in combination with our trademarks helps protect our trademarks and make people aware of them. Please use our trademarks with the proper symbols or tag lines described below in section IV.
   5. Make MapInfo's trademarks look distinctive. When you use MapInfo trademarks, you should use some means of distinguishing them. For example, you may type them in ALL CAPS or in quotes with "Initial Caps." You may also distinguish them with bold or italic type face or a different color type.
   6. Trademarks vs. Trade Names. When you use "MapInfo" to identify the company known as MapInfo Corporation rather than to identify a specific product or service, you are using the term as a trade name, not as a trademark. Therefore, when you use "MapInfo" either alone or as part of "MapInfo Corporation" to identify our company, you may use it as a noun and you should not place the ® trademark symbol next to it.
      
      
      
4. SYMBOLS AND TAG LINES
   
   
   1. Symbols
      Generally, you should identify our marks as registered trademarks (using the R-in-a-circle ®) or as unregistered trademarks (using the superscript TM ®) as appropriate. Check the MapInfo Trademark List to see how each mark should appear.
      
      On products, packaging, publications, web pages, advertising, manuals and promotional materials, use the appropriate symbol next to the most prominent use of a trademark (e.g., in the largest text in an advertisement) and, if the materials contain body text, next to its first appearance in the body text of the document. For example:
      
      
      (headline) TARGETPRO DEMOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE WINS PRAISE
      (body text) Experts attending a recent industry conference gave high marks to MapInfo Corporation's TargetPro® demographic software.
      
      
   2. Trademark Lines.
      On all products, packaging, publications, web pages, advertising, manuals and promotional materials that display MapInfo trademarks, you should note that those trademarks belong to MapInfo. For example:
      
      
      MapInfo is a registered trademark and [insert all other terms that you have used and that are listed on the MapInfo Trademarks List [is a/are] trademark[s] or registered trademark[s] of MapInfo Corporation, Troy, New York.
      
      These tag lines may be placed at the bottom or on the back of the materials, on a copyright page or in any other appropriate place where other credits are displayed. Remember that using tag lines is not a substitute for the proper use of MapInfo trademarks.

Questions?

A list of MapInfo's trademarks are available here.

If you have specific questions or need additional information or clarification on the proper uses of MapInfo trademarks and logos, or if you have information concerning the misuse of our trademarks, you may contact us by regular mail at:

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