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Trademark

Trademark: any word, phrase, symbol, or design identifying the source of goods or services; the most widely used intellectual property right, protected through national registration and the Madrid System, with rights tied to specific goods.

Trademark attorney

Trademark attorney: a lawyer handling trademark clearance, USPTO registration, and enforcement. In the U.S., any bar-admitted attorney may practice before the USPTO; foreign-domiciled applicants must retain U.S.-licensed counsel.

Trademark Official Gazette

The Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) is the USPTO's weekly Tuesday online journal listing trademarks published for opposition, Supplemental Register registrations, and updated certificates, starting a 30-day opposition window under 15 U.S.C. §1063.

Trademark symbol

Trademark symbol: the notices ™, ℠, and ® placed beside marks. ™/℠ signal unregistered claims to goods/services marks; ® is legally reserved for registered trademarks.

Tradeplus24

Tradeplus24, later rebranded TP24, was a Zurich fintech founded in 2016 that lent to small and medium-sized businesses through credit lines secured against their unpaid invoices.

Trader (finance)

A trader is a financial professional who buys and sells securities, derivatives, currencies, or commodities for an employer's capital, on behalf of clients, or with personal capital.

Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's, originally Pronto Markets, is an American grocery chain founded by Joe Coulombe in 1967, known for its roughly 4,000 mostly private-label products at everyday low prices.

Trader Vic's

Trader Vic's is a Polynesian-themed restaurant chain founded by Victor Bergeron, who renamed his Oakland bar Hinky Dinks in 1938. Known for claiming the 1944 Mai Tai and rivaling Don the Beachcomber.

TRADES (adversarial training)

TRADES, an adversarial training method introduced at ICML 2019, adds a beta-weighted KL divergence penalty to keep predictions on adversarial examples close to clean ones.

Tradescantia

Tradescantia (spiderworts), a New World genus of about 90 herbaceous species in Commelinaceae, order Commelinales; includes wandering Jew (T. zebrina), inch plant, and oyster plant (T. spathacea), with Rhoeo, Zebrina, and Setcreasea as synonyms.

Tradescantia ohiensis

Tradescantia ohiensis, Ohio spiderwort, smooth spiderwort, or bluejacket: a clump-forming Commelinaceae perennial native from Ontario to the central and eastern United States, with blue to rose three-petaled one-day flowers, 18 synonyms, and NatureServe rank G5.

Tradescantia pallida

Tradescantia pallida (purple heart, purple queen) is a Mexican trailing Commelinaceae perennial with deep purple leaves and pink morning-opening flowers, mildly irritant sap, easy stem-cutting propagation, and invasive status in parts of South Africa and Italy.

Tradescantia zebrina

Tradescantia zebrina, the zebra plant or inch plant (formerly Zebrina pendula), is a trailing Commelinaceae houseplant native from Mexico to Colombia, with silver-striped purple leaves, easy propagation, and invasive status in Florida, Brazil, and South Africa.

Tradeshift

Tradeshift is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2010 by a Danish team that operates a cloud-based network for e-invoicing, compliance, and supply chain payments.

TradeTech (uranium price reporter)

TradeTech is a Denver-based uranium price reporting firm founded in 1995, which with UxC provides the de facto reference prices for a uranium market that has no exchange.

Tradewind Aviation

Tradewind Aviation, also known as Tradewind Shuttle, is an American Part 135 charter airline founded in 2001 and headquartered in Oxford, Connecticut, flying scheduled and private charter service.

Trading 212

Trading 212 is a fintech retail broker offering commission-free trading in stocks, ETFs, forex, and commodities through mobile apps, regulated in the UK and several other countries.

Trading card

Trading card: small collectible printed card, originating in 1880s tobacco advertising inserts (T206 Honus Wagner), evolving through gum-era baseball cards and 1952 Topps design into sports cards, Pokémon TCG, and a graded, multi-billion-dollar secondary market.

Trading company

A trading company, also called a trading house, is a firm that intermediates trade between producers and consumers across borders, buying and selling commodities it does not produce.

Trading Places

Trading Places (1983) is a John Landis comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis, in which the Duke brothers' $1 bet swaps a broker and a hustler, ending on the NYMEX orange juice floor.

Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces: American TLC reality home-makeover series (2000-2008, eight seasons), adapted from BBC's Changing Rooms; neighbors swap homes for 48 hours, redo a room on a $1,000 budget, host Paige Davis, 2018-2019 revival.

Trading zone

A trading zone, introduced by historian of science Peter Galison in 1996, is an arena where communities with different languages and values coordinate locally without global agreement on meaning.

TradingView

TradingView is a web-based charting platform and social network for traders and investors, founded in 2011, offering charts, screeners, trading ideas, and its Pine Script language.

Tradipitant

Tradipitant (NEREUS, LY686017, VLY-686) is a selective NK-1 receptor antagonist approved by the FDA in December 2025 to prevent motion-induced vomiting in adults; dosed 85 or 170 mg, half-life 34 hours.

Tradition

Tradition: transmitted practices with symbolic or ritual significance, defined by Hobsbawm; covers invented tradition (1983), UNESCO intangible heritage, Chinese custom-ritual interaction, and innovation.

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot's 1919 essay in The Egoist, reprinted in The Sacred Wood (1920), redefines literary tradition as labor-won and argues poetry is impersonal, an escape from personality.

Traditional African beers

Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.

Traditional African masks

Traditional African masks, also called African tribal masks, are masquerades of costume, music, and dance embodying spirits or ancestors, used in rites of passage across Africa.

Traditional African religions

Traditional African religions, also known as African Traditional Religion or African indigenous religions, are the indigenous religions of Africa, involving a supreme creator, divinities, venerated ancestors, and divination, transmitted orally rather than through scriptures.

Traditional animation

Traditional (cel) animation: hand-drawn animation on transparent celluloid cels photographed frame by frame over painted backgrounds; 24 drawings per second, Snow White (1937) as first feature, Disney's 1990 shift to digital CAPS.