COMSOL Trademark and Brand Guidelines

These guidelines address how you should properly use trademarks when referring to us, our products, and/or the products we interface with or include with our products. You may use our trademarks in order to refer to us or our products and services, if you follow these guidelines. For specific instructions on how to reference the COMSOL Multiphysics^® software in papers and publications, please view this Knowledge Base entry.

Using Our Trademarks

When using our trademarks, you must use the ™ designation immediately following the trademark. For example: LiveLink™. When using a trademark of ours, you must include a trademark attribution, wherever such attributions are normally included, indicating that this trademark is a trademark of ours. For example: “LiveLink is a trademark of COMSOL AB.”

Using Our Registered Trademarks

Some of our trademarks are registered in the United States and other countries. When using our registered trademarks in a country where it is registered, you must use the ® designation immediately following the trademark. For example: COMSOL^®. When using such a registered trademark of ours, you must include a trademark attribution, wherever such attributions are normally included, indicating that this trademark is a registered trademark of ours. For example: “COMSOL is a registered trademark of COMSOL AB.”

Lists of our trademarks and our registered trademarks are set forth here: COMSOL Trademarks

Our trademarks must be used solely to refer to a type of product or service that is offered under that mark and not as a name for a genus of product. Do this by including a generic noun. For example you should write: “ I use COMSOL Multiphysics^® simulation software.” as opposed to the statement without the generic noun "I use COMSOL Multiphysics^®". When the generic noun is obvious from earlier use in a text, it may be left implicit. As in the previous example, you must preserve any distinctive lettering, capitalization, or other features that we include in our trademarks. Our trademarks must not be abbreviated, hyphenated, turned into a possessive form, or used in the plural form.

Our Logos and Design Marks

You may not use any of our logos or design marks without prior written permission from us, and you may not create any other logo or design feature incorporating our trademarks.

Please see COMSOL's Brand Guide for more details.

Our Trademarks in Product Names or Publication Titles

Product names and publication titles may not incorporate any of our trademarks without a license, except as follows: You may use our trademarks in the title of a single issue book or a serial publication if you (1) comply with all of the guidelines set forth above, (2) include a statement that you are not affiliated with COMSOL AB and that COMSOL AB has not authorized, sponsored, or approved your book and is not otherwise connected to your book, (3) for serial publications, you must not make any of our trademarks the leading or dominant component of the title (for example, ABC Magazine for COMSOL Multiphysics^®).

No Alteration of Combination of Our Trademarks

Our trademarks may not be altered or combined with other trademarks.

Third Party Trademarks

When using a trademark of another company you must follow their trademark guidelines. When using the trademark of another company in close conjunction with one of our trademarks, for instance to indicate compatibility between two products, you must use a ™ or ® designation as appropriate by each trademark. For example: LiveLink™ for MATLAB^®. In addition you must indicate the owner of each trademark in an accompanying trademark attribution. For example: “LiveLink™ is a trademark of COMSOL AB. MATLAB^® is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.” As shown in the example, the trademarks of each company should be listed in separate sentences. Trademark attributions should be included wherever such attributions are normally included, for instance in the edition notice of a book or at the bottom of a web page.

As in the above example, our trademarks should be clearly differentiated from those of any other companies. A list of trademarks owned by other companies whose products we interface with or otherwise may refer to is set forth here.