Sea-Mop trademark guidelines
Oz Venture owns and oversees the Mop, Sea-Mop and Seamop trademark and a family of Mop-formative marks. These include, but are not limited to Mop®, Sea-Mop®, and related designs (collectively, the “Mop Marks”).
The goal of these guidelines is to guide you in which circumstances you can use certain Mop Marks without seeking pre-approval from us, and which circumstances you cannot.
Our guidelines seek a balance between ensuring that the Mop Marks are used solely to refer to Mop, its affiliated companies and its products and services, while still allowing you to use certain Mop Marks to reference the compatibility of your products with Sea-Mop.
Trademarks indicate the source of goods and services and ensure that consumers are not mislead about the identity of the supplier; while copyright is a legal mechanism allowing the creator of a literary or artistic work (e.g., software code, images) in a tangible form to control who can make subsequent copies of the work. As an example, in the software world, trademark protects the name of the software while copyright protects the software code.
The details
Use the Mop trademark in plain text, non-stylized format (and not logo format) to:
- Truthfully and accurately refer to or describe Sea-Mop products and services.
- Refer to Sea-Mop or Mop in news and articles.
- Link to our sites.
- Describe your compatibility with or support for Sea-Mop in certain circumstances.
Unless you have a trademark license with us, do not use the Sea-Mop Marks:
- In a way that suggests that Oz or Sea-Mop has somehow sponsored, endorsed, or is otherwise affiliated with you or your products or services.
- In a way that maligns, disparages or tarnishes Oz, Sea-Mop or their products and services, even if your products and services also happen to be compatible with them.
- In a way that trades on the goodwill of the Sea-Mop Marks.
- In advertising and marketing materials.
Whenever you use our trademarks, please always follow our guidelines below.We reserve the right to at any time revoke your permission to use the Mop Marks for any reason, including if we determine that the use is likely to confuse others about our involvement with or the source of your product or service or trades on the goodwill of the Mop Marks.
Likewise, if you have an approved use of our logo and have questions about colors, sizing, proportions, etc., please contact us.
Use of the Sea-Mop name to indicate compatibility
You must name your product or service something unique that is dissimilar to and distinguishable from Oz, Mop, Sea-Mop, and the Mop Marks. Use of the Sea-Mop trademark should be used solely to refer to the compatibility of your product, or that you provide support for our products and services.
To denote compatibility, you must:
- Use your distinctive product name immediately preceding the use of “compatible with Sea-Mop” or “for Sea-Mop.”
- Never use or incorporate Sea-Mop or any Mop Mark as part of your brand, company, product, service or feature names.
- Never use or incorporate the Mop Marks as part of your domain names.
- Never adopt a brand that is confusingly similar to the Mop Marks.
Please see the Examples below for how these rules apply in practice.
Other intended uses
If you’d like to use a Mop Mark for reasons other than those listed above, please ask our permission by contacting us via email. We may grant permission to high-quality projects that further the Sea-Mop community.
Examples
Here are examples of how you may and may not use a certain Mop Marks.
| Allowed | Not allowed |
| You may use our name in plain letters (not our logo) to describe how your products or services are compatible with or support Mop or Sea-Mop. | Do not include any Mop Marks (either name or Logo) in the name of your company, brand, product, service or feature. E.g., Don’t call yourself “The Sea-Mop Consulting Company”. |
| You may use our name to refer or link to our official products. E.g., “We provide services for products sold by Sea-Mop.com.” | Do not use the Mop Marks in any way that suggests a special relationship with or endorsement from Oz venture, such as your company being part of our group. |
| You may use the word “Mop” in a domain name that does not reference boating, sea, sailing, nor suggest an affiliation to Oz or Sea-Mop, | Do not use the name Mop or the Sea-Mop logo or any of the Mop Marks to sell Mop’s own products. E.g., You can’t resell Sea-Mop products using the Mop Marks. |
| You may call yourself an expert at using Sea-Mop products. E.g., I have extensive expertise deploying Mop on boats. | In a domain name, using the words “Sea-Mop”, or “Seamop” in any way, or using “Mop” in your domain name as a reference to Sea-Mop or in a way that suggests an affiliation to Oz Venture. |
For those who have the right to use a Mop Mark, here’s how to do so
These instructions are designed to apply to those who either have a trademark license from Sea-Mop or who are using the Mop trademarks for the permitted purposes described above.
Use the exact mark: The Mop Marks should be used in their exact, most up-to-date form. They should neither be abbreviated nor combined with other words, or amended in any way. The Mop Marks should always be capitalized. As for an example, the Sea-Mop mark should always use a capital “S” in “Sea” and a capital “M” for “Mop”.
Reach out with questions
When in doubt about your use of any Mop Marks, please contact Sea-Mop using our general contact email for clarification. We’ll answer as soon as possible.
