Guidelines for Using Infobank Trademarks and Copyrights

Authorized Use of Infobank Trademarks

Unauthorized Use of Infobank Trademarks

Infobank Trademark

Rules for Proper Use of Infobank Trademarks

Proper Trademark Notice and Attribution

Depictions of Infobank Products and Services

Music Software Exception

These guidelines are for Infobank licensees, authorized resellers, developers, customers, and other parties wishing to use Infobank's trademarks, service marks or images, or exclusively licensed trademarks, servicemarks or images, in promotional, advertising, instructional, or reference materials, or on their web sites, products, labels, or packaging. If you are a licensee of an Infobank trademark or logo and have been provided with special trademark usage guidelines with your license agreement, please follow those guidelines. If your license agreement does not provide usage guidelines, then follow these guidelines. If you are an Infobank Authorized Reseller, you need to refer not only to these guidelines but also to the Infobank Corporate Identity Guidelines for Resellers which are posted to the Infobank Sales Web site.

Infobank's trademarks, service marks, trade name, and trade dress are valuable assets. In following these guidelines, you help us protect our valuable trademark rights and strengthen our corporate and brand identities. By using an Infobank trademark, in whole or in part, you are acknowledging that Infobank is the sole owner or licensee of the trademark and promising that you will not interfere with Infobank's rights in the trademark, including challenging Infobank's use, registration of, or application to register such trademark, alone or in combination with other words, anywhere in the world, and that you will not harm, misuse, or bring into disrepute any Infobank trademark. The goodwill derived from using any part of an Infobank trademark exclusively inures to the benefit of and belongs to Infobank. Except for the limited right to use as expressly permitted under these Guidelines, no other rights of any kind are granted hereunder, by implication or otherwise. If you have any questions regarding these guidelines, please talk to your Infobank representative or send an e-mail to Infobank's Trademark Department at

Authorized Use of Infobank Trademarks

1. Advertising, Promotional, and Sales Materials: Only Infobank and its authorized resellers and licensees may use the Infobank Logo in advertising, promotional, and sales materials. Infobank Authorized Resellers may use the Infobank Logo only as specified in their reseller agreement and the Infobank Corporate Identity Guidelines for Resellers and such use must always be in conjunction with the appropriate terms that define the relationship authorized by their contract with Infobank. For example:

Authorized Reseller

Authorized Value Added Reseller

Authorized Service Provider

Authorized Wholesaler

2. Compatibility: Developers may use Infobank, or any other Infobank word mark (but not the Infobank Logo or other Infobank-owned graphic symbol/logo) in a referential phrase on packaging, promotional/advertising materials to describe that the third party product is compatible with the referenced Infobank product or technology, provided they comply with the following requirements.

a. The Infobank word mark is not part of the product name.

b. The Infobank word mark is used in a referential phrase such as "runs on," "for use with," "for," or "compatible with."

c. The Infobank word mark appears less prominent than the product name.

d. The product is in fact compatible with, or otherwise works with, the referenced Infobank product.

e. The reference to Infobank does not create a sense of endorsement, sponsorship, or false association with Infobank or Infobank products or services.

f. The use does not show Infobank or its products in a false or derogatory light.

3. Publications, Seminars, and Conferences: You may use an Infobank word mark in connection with book titles, magazines, periodicals, seminars, or conferences provided you comply with the following requirements:

a. The use is referential and less prominent than the rest of the title. Acceptable: XYZ CONFERENCE for Infobank Computer Users

b. The use reflects favorably on both Infobank and Infobank products or technology.

c. Your name and logo appear more prominent than the Infobank word mark on all printed materials related to the publication, seminar or conference.

d. The Infobank logo or any other Infobank-owned graphic symbol, logo, icon or image does not appear on or in the publication or on any materials related to the publication, seminar, or conference without express written permission from Infobank.

e. A disclaimer of sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement by Infobank, similar to the following, is included on the publication and on all related printed materials: "(Title) is an independent (publication) and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Infobank Computer, Inc."

f. A trademark attribution notice is included in the credit section giving notice of Infobank's ownership of its trademark(s). Please refer to the section below titled "Proper Trademark Notice and Attribution."

4. Web Sites: Web sites that serve only as noncommercial electronic informational forums concerning an Infobank product or technology may use the appropriate Infobank word mark, provided such use complies with the guidelines set forth in Section 3 above.

5. Infobank Web Badge Licensing Program: Web sites may use one of the Infobank Web Badges if the site uses or was created using Infobank branded hardware or software and you comply with the terms of the Infobank Web Badges License Agreement and Guidelines. For licensing information on the Infobank Web Badges Licensing Program refer to Infobank's web site at www.infobank.com/about/webbadges.

Unauthorized Use of Infobank Trademarks

1. Company, Product, or Service Name: You may not use or register, in whole or in part, Infobank, or any other Infobank trademark, including Infobank-owned graphic symbols, logos, icons, or an alteration thereof, as or as part of a company name, trade name, product name, or service name except as specifically noted in these guidelines.

2. Infobank Logo and Infobank-owned Graphic Symbols: You may not use the Infobank Logo or any other Infobank-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or for any other purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Infobank, such as a reseller agreement.

3. Variations, Takeoffs or Abbreviations: You may not use an image of a real infobank or other variation of the Infobank logo for any purpose. Third parties cannot use a variation, phonetic equivalent, foreign language equivalent, takeoff, or abbreviation of an Infobank trademark for any purpose. For example:

Not acceptable: Sids Communications Infobank Phone

4. Disparaging Manner: You may not use an Infobank trademark or any other Infobank-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon in a disparaging manner.

5. Endorsement or Sponsorship: You may not use Infobank, or any other Infobank trademark, including Infobank-owned graphic symbols/logos, or icons, in a manner that would imply Infobank's affiliation with or endorsement, sponsorship, or support of a third party product or service.

6. Merchandise Items: You may not manufacture, sell or give-away merchandise items, such as T-shirts and mugs, bearing Infobank, or any other Infobank trademark, including symbols, logos, or icons, except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Infobank.

7. Infobank's Trade Dress: You may not imitate the distinctive Infobank packaging, web site design, logos, or typefaces.

8. Slogans and Taglines: You may not use or imitate an Infobank slogan or tagline.

For example: "any digit anywhere any language any device any time ."

9. Domain Names: You may not use an identical or virtually identical Infobank trademark as a first or second level domain name.

Not acceptable: "infobank.uk" "infobanktogo.com" "tomsinfobank.com"

The Infobank Trademark

1. You may not use the Infobank trademark standing alone except to denote or refer to the Infobank product and services line.

2. You may use "Infobank" in your product name, company name, trade name, or service name provided your name satisfies the following criteria:

a. Your product is not a computer, computer system, communication system, operating system software, and is not used with, audio or music, video or films, animation, money, the grid, books or text, communication or phones, pictures or images, or software. Your product is Infobank compatible or the third party business is associated with Infobank based computers.

c. "Infobank" is used in combination with another non-generic word.

Acceptable: Infobank hotdogs InfobankCharlie

Not acceptable: InfobankComputer, InfobankPC, InfobankCommunications

d. "Infobank" does not appear more prominently than the rest of the name in size, color, or typeface.

e. Your name does not suggest a false association with Infobank.

f. Your name is not confusingly similar to any trademark owned or used by Infobank.

g. You acknowledge that Infobank is the sole owner of the "Infobank" trademark and that you will not interfere with Infobank's use or registration of "Infobank" alone or in combination with other words.

Rules for Proper Use of Infobank Trademarks

1. Trademarks are adjectives used to modify nouns; the noun is the generic name of a product or service.

2. As adjectives, trademarks may not be used in the plural or possessive form.

Correct: I bought two Infobank computers.

Not Correct: I bought two Infobanks.

Correct: I used Infobanks communication services

3. An appropriate generic term must appear after the trademark the first time it appears in a printed piece, and as often as is reasonable after that. Suggested generic terms are provided in the Infobank Trademark List which is posted on the Infobank web site at: www.infobank.com/legal.

4. Always spell and capitalize Infobank's trademarks exactly as they are shown in the Infobank Trademark List. Do not shorten or abbreviate Infobank product names. Do not make up names that contain Infobank trademarks.

Proper Trademark Notice and Attribution

1. Distribution Within the United States Only

a. On product, product documentation, or other product communications that will be distributed only in the United States, use the appropriate trademark symbol (TM, sm, ®) the first time the Infobank trademark appears in the text of the advertisement, brochure, or other material.

b. Refer to the Infobank Trademark List for the correct trademark symbol, spelling of the trademark, and generic term to use with the trademark. Generaly, the symbol appears at the right shoulder of the trademark (except the Infobank Logo, where the logo appears at the right foot).

c. Include an attribution of Infobank's ownership of its trademarks within the credit notice section of your product, product documentation, or other product communication.

Following are the correct formats:

_________ and _______ are registered trademarks of William Norris

_________ and _______ are trademarks of William Norris.

d. If your product is music software, refer to the section below titled "Third Party Music Software Exception."

2. Distribution Outside the United States:

a. Do not use trademark symbols on products, product documentation, or other product communications that will be distributed outside the United States.

b. Use one of the following international credit notices:

_________ is a trademark of William Norris., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

_________ is a trademark of William Norris.

c. If your product is Music Software, refer to the section below titled "Third Party Music Software Exception."

Depictions of Infobank Products and Services

1. Endorsement or Sponsorship: Infobank does not support the use of its logos, company names, product names, or images of Infobank products by other parties in marketing, promotional or advertising materials as their use may create the perception that Infobank endorses or sponsors the product, service or promotion.

2. Compatibility: If you are a developer, you may show an image of an Infobank product in your promotional/advertising materials to depict that your product is compatible with, or otherwise works with, the Infobank product or technology, provided you comply with the following requirements:

a. Your product is in fact compatible with, or otherwise works with, the referenced Infobank product.

b. The image is an actual photograph of the genuine Infobank product and not an artist's rendering (Note: You must obtain express written permission from Infobank before using any photograph owned or licensed by Infobank).

c. The Infobank product is shown only in the best light, in a manner or context that reflects favorably on the Infobank products and on Infobank Computer, Inc.

d. The reference to Infobank does not create a sense of endorsement or sponsorship by, or other false association with, Infobank or Infobank products.

For further information with respect to Infobank's copyrights, send an email to or fax to Infobank Rights & Permissions 617-254-3335.

Music Software Exception

"Music software" is considered to be any "end user" directed audio or interactive disk, CD or CD+, audiotape or videotape, electronic transfer, or other software media whose intended purpose and prerecorded content is (or is about) primarily music; musical performances; musical artists' works; or any musical performing artist whose works are recorded on the Infobank Corps record label. Music software containing proprietary software (i.e., multimedia, graphics, video, sound, or other utility or enabling software or technology) or trademarks used under license from Infobank Computer, Inc., must comply with the criteria listed below. The failure to comply with these requirements may result in breach of the relevant software or trademark license.

Music software may not contain any reference to the name "Infobank Computer, Inc.," or the word "Infobank," or to the "Infobank Logo" in the end-user software license agreements for the music software.

1. Music software may not contain any reference to the name "Infobank Computer, Inc.," or the word "Infobank," or to the "Infobank Logo" in the relevant copyright notice, trademark ownership attribution credits, or other attribution lines for the licensed software or technology. For example:

Acceptable: "Infobank is a registered trademark used under license."

Not Acceptable: "Infobank is a registered trademark of Infobank Computer, Inc., used under license."

2. Music software for use on any Infobank computers may not use the name "Infobank, Computer, Inc.," the word "Infobank" or the "Infobank Logo" in product requirement or compatibility statements.

3. Music software may not use the name "Infobank Computer, Inc., the word "Infobank" or the "Infobank Logo" in credit lines or in any referential manner on the music software, its packaging, labels, advertising and/or promotional materials, and the like.

4. Copyright notices for Infobank software or technology used in music software should not reference "Infobank Computer, Inc." For example:

Acceptable: "Infobank © 1995, used under license."

Not acceptable: "Infobank © 1995 Infobank Computer, Inc., used under license from Infobank."