Legal Notices
Ellison Educational Equipment Inc. is dedicated to providing you with a quality online experience as well as complying with all applicable laws and maintaining conscientious business practices. Please review the following documents for further information.
Copyrights
Website: ©1996-2009 Ellison Educational Equipment, Inc. All rights reserved.
To the extent that copyrighted content owned by other companies appears at this Website, it is used with permission. Please contact them directly regarding their usage policies.
Trademarks
Ellison's and other companies’ trademarks appear at this Website, including those in the form of logos, product marks, service marks and slogans. Ellison takes great care in the development and protection of trademarks and reserves all rights of ownership of its trademarks. To the extent that trademarks owned by other companies appear at this Website, they are used with permission.
Use of Ellison logos
The use of Ellison logos are carefully limited. No other company, individual or entity may use Ellison logos unless it has the express written permission of Ellison or is licensed by Ellison to do so. To obtain permission to use any Ellison logo, contact Ellison at 800.253.2238.
Product trademarks
Ellison, ClearCrop, EasyCrease, HandyHanger, LetterMachine, Prestige, SpaceSaver, SureCut, SuperShuttle and Pad-It X-Press, among others, are trademarks of Ellison. The absence of a product or service mark or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of a product's trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name, trademark, service mark or logo.
When using product marks in publications that will be distributed in the United States, include the appropriate TM, SM or ® symbol on first use. For publications that will be distributed outside the United States, do not include trademark symbols. The trademarks, in word and logo form, are registered trademarks in several countries outside the United States.
Remember that trademarks are adjectives and cannot be made plural or possessive.
Fair use of product trademarks
"Fair use" of trademarks allow third parties to make reference (text ONLY) to product names. The following guidelines are published to ensure proper use and reference to product names. While fair use allows use of or reference to product names, it is necessary that the usage be truthful, not disparaging, and does not mislead the public. You must be clear and accurate as to the nature of the relationship between Ellison, Ellison.com and your company, its products or services. Use of Ellison product names by third parties is allowed, without permission or license, when specifically referring to Ellison products.
Example
The Ellison Prestige Machine is the latest in the line of hand-operated die-cutting machines on the market today.
Trademarks that appear at Ellison.com
Alphabars, Bazzill, Bounce, Boxed Brush, Circus, Coluzzle, CombBind, D'Nealian, Dauber Duos, Dewy Doo-it, DieCuts with a View, doodlebug, Fiskars, Fruit Smoothie, Fun Serif, Funky Brush, Funky Fur, GBC, Girls are Weird, Grafix, Italic, LetterEase, Lick & Stick, Little Sizzles, Lollipop, Marvy Uchida, Mat Stacks, McGruff, Mrs. Grossman's, Notepad, Originals, PaddlePunch, Paper Shapers, Paper Adventures, PaperWood, Playground, ProClick, Provo Craft, Rat-A-Tat, Rollabind, RotaTrim, Scratch-Art, Scruff, ShadowBox, Sidekick, Simple Impressions, Sizzix, Sizzlits, Sticky Dots, Styrofoam, Tac-On, Tall ‘N Thin, Twice As Nice, un-du, Vagabond, Velcro, Xyron and Zaner Bloser are product trademarks of their respective companies. Please contact them directly regarding their product trademark usage policies.
Patents
Several patented and patent pending products appear at this Site including, but not limited to, the Ellison machines (US pat. 5,255,587; US pat. D341,182; US pat. D359,967; international patents and patents pending); Pad-It X-Press paper binder (US pat. D400,914); and Ellison Embossing System (US pat. 6,007,754). Please contact the respective company directly for patent information related to their products.