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	For all documents on the FreeBSD Documentation Project, it is necessary to cite registered trademarks, and that is a duty of every writer and contributor.			For all documents on the FreeBSD Documentation Project, citing registered trademarks is necessary and other trademarks is customary, and that is a requirement for every writer and contributor.

	[[trademark-symbols]]			[[trademark-symbols]]
	== Trademark Symbols			== Trademark Symbols

	Add a registered trademark symbol (TM), (R), or other symbols in the first occurrence of the company or software name, and always when using logos.			Append a trademark symbol ((TM), (R), or other) to the first occurrence of the trademarked name, and always when using logos.
	Also, write the company or software name following its trademark guidelines.			Use the extref:{fdp-primer}/writing-style/#writing-style-special-characters[equivalent ASCII sequence], which will be rendered as the actual Unicode character.
				Also, write the trademarked name following its trademark guidelines.

	When in doubt, research the company on the Internet or the software's website in addition to the link:https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks[United States Patent and Trademark Office site].			When in doubt, research the trademark owner's website, the product's website, and or the link:https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks[United States Patent and Trademark Office trademark search website].

	[[trademark-citing]]			[[trademark-citing]]
	== Trademark Citing			== Trademark Citing

	It is customary to cite trademarks in technical documentation, and the FreeBSD Documentation Project provides a template for it, which also avoids duplicating trademarks in the documents.			The FreeBSD Documentation Project provides a template for citing trademarks, which also avoids duplicating trademarks in the documents.

	First, check the project's link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/documentation/themes/beastie/i18n/en.toml#n197[template] for the trademark and then add it to the trademarks tag on the `Front Matter` section of the document, placed at the beginning of each document.			First, look for the trademark in the link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/documentation/themes/beastie/i18n/en.toml#n328[Copyright section in the project's template], then add it to the trademarks tag on the `Front Matter` section of the document, located at the beginning of each document.

	The following is an example of the `Front Matter` of the extref:{contributing}[Contributing to FreeBSD] article:			The following is an example of the `Front Matter` of the extref:{contributing}[Contributing to FreeBSD] article:

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	title: Contributing to FreeBSD			title: Contributing to FreeBSD
	authors:			authors:
	- author: Jordan Hubbard			- author: Jordan Hubbard
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