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Guidelines for Third Party Use of Pandorabots Brand Features

General Information

Although we’d like to accommodate all the requests we receive from users who want to add a touch of Pandorabots to their sites, we insist on promoting and protecting the reputation of our brand as an objective, neutral and fair provider of pandorabots (chatbots). We refuse to accept many requests we receive from other sites because we want to avoid implying that Pandorabots is endorsing the site or is otherwise affiliated with the site. We also prohibit associations of Pandorabots’s trademarks, logos, web pages, screen shots, or other distinctive features (“Pandorabots Brand Features” or “Brand Features”) with material we deem objectionable.

These Brand Features shall be used only pursuant to these Guidelines, our Pandorabots Terms of Service, and for the specific purposes for which Pandorabots has given permission. If you have a written agreement with Pandorabots that specifically addresses how you may use our Brand Features, you may avoid the approval process described here unless you want to do something other than what has been authorized in your existing agreement. Otherwise, the only time you may use Brand Features without advance written permission is if there is clear and express language on our website stating that you can use those Brand Features without first obtaining permission, such as is the case with our pandorabots.

When you use any of our Brand Features, you must always follow the Rules for Proper Usage included in these Guidelines. In addition, Pandorabots may provide you with written requirements as to the colors, typeface, size, typeface, and other graphic characteristics of the Pandorabots Brand Features. If we provide these requirements to you at the time of our approval, you must implement them before using our Brand Features. If we provide these requirements to you after we initially gave our permission, you must implement them within a commercially reasonable time frame.

Trademark Basics

What is a trademark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device (or a combination thereof) that identifies the goods or services of a person or company and distinguishes them from the goods and services of others. A trademark assures consumers of consistent quality with respect to those goods or services and aids in their promotion.

Why is it important to use marks correctly?

Rights to a trademark can last indefinitely if the owner continues to use the mark to identify its goods and services. If trademarks are not used properly, they may be lost and one of the company’s most important assets may lose all of its value. Rights may be lost not only because of a trademark owner’s improper use of the mark, but through improper use of the trademark by the public.

Rules for Proper Usage

Things to do:

• If you are using a Pandorabots trademark, distinguish the trademark from the surrounding text in some way. Capitalize the first letter, capitalize or italicize the entire mark, place the mark in quotes, use a different type style or font for the mark than for the generic name.
• If you do not capitalize the entire mark, always spell and capitalize the trademark exactly as they are shown in the Pandorabots Trademarks and Suggested Accepted Generic Terms below.
• Use the trademark only as an adjective, never as a noun or verb, and never in the plural or possessive form.
• Use a generic term following the trademark, for example: PANDORABOTS search engine, Pandorabots search, PANDORABOTS web search.
• Use only Pandorabots-approved artwork when using Pandorabots’s logos.
• If you are using a Pandorabots logo on a web page, there must exist a minimum spacing of 25 pixels between each side of the logo and other graphic or textual elements on your web page.
• Normally, an unregistered Pandorabots Brand Feature should be followed by the superscripted letters TM or SM to give notice that the company claims trademark rights in the term. A registered Pandorabots Brand Feature should be followed by the symbol ® to identify the term as a registered trademark. In advertising copy, notice of trademark rights may be provided in a footnote format – e.g., by placing an asterisk adjacent to the Pandorabots Brand Feature and placing an appropriate notice at the bottom of the page on which the asterisk appears. Example: *PANDORABOTS is a trademark of Pandorabots Inc.

Things You Can’t Do

• One of the conditions for all uses is that you can’t mess around with our marks. Only we get to do that. Don’t remove, distort or alter any element of a Pandorabots Brand Feature. That includes modifying a Pandorabots trademark, for example, through hyphenation, combination or abbreviation, such as: ppandorabot, pandorasbot, mypandorabot. Do not shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of Pandorabots trademarks.
• Don’t display a Pandorabots Brand Feature as the most prominent element on your web page.
• Don’t display a Pandorabots Brand Feature in any manner that implies a relationship or affiliation with, sponsorship, or endorsement by Pandorabots, or that can be reasonably interpreted to suggest editorial content has been authored by, or represents the views or opinions of Pandorabots or Pandorabots personnel.
• Don’t display a Pandorabots Brand Feature on any web site that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, or otherwise violates applicable law.
• Don’t display a Pandorabots Brand Feature in a manner that is in Pandorabots’s sole opinion misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to Pandorabots.
• Don’t display a Pandorabots Brand Feature on a site that violates any law or regulation.
• Don’t frame or mirror any Pandorabots page (including the page that appears in response to a click on the Pandorabots logo or Pandorabots search box).
• Don’t incorporate Pandorabots Brand Features into your own product name, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names.
• Don’t copy or imitate Pandorabots’s trade dress, including the look and feel of Pandorabots web design properties or Pandorabots brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with Pandorabots
• Don’t adopt marks, logos, slogans, or designs that are confusingly similar to our Brand Features.
• Don’t register Pandorabots trademarks as second-level domain names.
• Don’t use Pandorabots trademarks in a way that suggests a common, descriptive, or generic meaning.
• Trademark rights vary from country to country. Some countries have severe criminal and civil penalties for improper use of the registration symbol. Therefore, don’t use the registration symbol (®) in countries where the mark has not been registered.

If there is any question about usage, requests for clarification or permission may be submitted through the process outlined at Pandorabots Permissions.

Pandorabots Trademarks and Suggested Accepted Generic Terms

The following are some of the trademarks owned by Pandorabots Inc. and the suggested generic terms for those trademarks.

• pandorabot™ chatbot
• Pandorabots™ chatbot web application
• pandorawriter™ chatbot content-creation tool
• SpellBinder™ Chatbot content-creation software
• Pandorawriter™ Chatbot content-creation tool
• Superbot™ Chatbot content-creation tool
• Pandora Echo™ Chatbot content-creation tool

Release:Guidelines for Third Party Use of Pandorabots Brand Features 1002-20090904

Last update:

Feb 15, 2014