Re: question about trademarked and registered names

**C* U* <c*@gmail.com>**

So am I supposed to write the following when I discuss, say, the Pink  
Knock Out?
Pink Knock Out® Rose Rosa ‘Radcon’

I think my readers would gag and think me horribly pretentious. I'd  
lose street cred.

I do know that last year, however, when I was listing the AARS winners  
in Chicagoland Gardening, I wanted to shorten a lengthy, unwieldy name  
(forget which one) and the lawyer for the company put his/her foot down.

Carolyn Ulrich

On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Duane Campbell wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nashgarden@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [GWL] question about trademarked and registered names
>
>
>> As to your second part, that is what I'm talking about--TM names  
>> are often
>> the registered commercial name which is different from the ugly and
>> hard-to-pronounce registered name.
>
> Just in case this has not become complicated enough, I would make the
> following grammatical argument. The name under which the cultivar is
> registered is the true fancy name and should follow the accepted  
> rules of
> nomenclature, i.e., italics  followed by single quotes for the  
> cultivar name
> which would be in normal font. But since the commercial name is a  
> pseudonym,
> not its "real" name, it should be double quotes.
>
>
> "Duane" Campbell
> Syndicated garden columnist
> Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns
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